THE MITANNI KINGDOM

Speaking of the Mitanni kingdom poses to the modern historian a great number of problems stemming from the lack of sources. It is well known that historical assertions only have value when they can be demonstrated with documents. The first serious problem that the historian must solve is that of the identity of the Mitanni people. Who were the Mitanni in reality? Historians have identified them with the Hurrians, inhabitants of the country of Hurri.
Until the present moment, nothing has been found relative to the politician of the Mitanni kings, although we know some aspects of his foreign campaigns thanks to Egyptian and Hittite texts that speak of them. The problem is further aggravated by the fact that no remains of any residence of Mitanni kings have been found. Only the names of five of these are known to us and are even difficult to set chronologically.
The Mitanni civilization, which we only know as a document of the bordering countries, must have been very bright, but excessively complex, formed by a Hurrian substrate plus the complement of Aryan, Babylonian and Amorite cultural traditions. The manifestations of his artistic life are also scarcely known to us. Its architecture, evolution of the Babylonian, adopted forms of great originality.