Urkesh (or Urkish, modern Tell Mozan, Syria) was a city situated at the base of the Taurus Mountains in what's now northern Syria near the modern city of Qamishli. It was founded during the fourth millennium BC possibly by the Hurrians on a site which appears to have been inhabited before then on a small scale for centuries. History It was an ally of the Akkadian Empire through what's believed to have been a dynastic marriage tradition. Tar'am-Agade the daughter of the Akkadian king, Naram-Sin,… (More on Urkesh)