Mitanni

X-ray analysis suggests the dagger’s metalwork did not match Egyptian metallurgy of the time but was consistent with techniques used in Mitanni, a region overlapping present-day Turkey.

There are the extravagantly wigged and bearded king and prince of the Mitanni, Egypt’s enemies, Rick James and Rick James Jr. There’s a pharaoh’s girlfriend in a coma.

Winckler has adduced evidence from names of local gods to show that there was an Indo-European racial element in Mitanni; but none for a similar element in the Hatti, whose chief god was Teshub.

The Hatti now pushed southwards in force, overcame the kingdom of Mitanni and proceeded partly to occupy and partly to make tributary both north Syria and western Mesopotamia where some of their congeners were already settled.

From Mitanni also had come two of his own wives, as well as the wife of his son and successor, Amenôphis iv.