Nuzi

Nuzi was an ancient Mesopotamian city at the modern mound of Yorghan Tepe in Iraq, about twelve kilometres southwest of the city of Arrapha, modern Kirkuk, and near the Tigris river. People lived there from the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC until late in the second millennium BC, and again in the Parthian era after a period of abandonment. During the Akkadian Empire it was known as Gasur, and under the Mitanni, when the Hurrians renamed it, as Nuzi. The site has about fifteen occupation layers, and most excavation concentrated on its Late Bronze Age levels. Gasur yielded 222 Akkadian-period cuneiform tablets and the Nuzi map, the oldest known map discovered, which suggests a thriving commercial centre with far-reaching trading contacts, including Assur, Susa and Akkad.