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Why did they build the wall along the side with the sheer cliff face I wonder
Got to have watchtowers for those pesky rock climbing mongolian assassins. A nice smooth brick surface slows them down and slips them a bit like heavy beatles clamoring up glass. /s
It's a few hundred years later, after the Hittites have disappeared, but Assurnasirpal II claims to have scaled a mountain peak "like the point of an iron dagger" to slaughter everyone inside the fortress at the top. Twice.
https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=assurnasirpal_ii
Mongolians? In 1300BC? Wasn't it 2,500 years later, in like, 1200AD when they came rolling thru?
Attilla the Hun was around 450 AD too. Not exactly Mongolian, but very similar in the sense of being nomadic horse archers from the steppe.
They might actually be related. The huns originated from east of the Volga river (so east of the Scythians) and recent research identified genetic links to ancient Mongols
Scythian maybe?