c. 1187 BCE

Emar is destroyed

Emar, a Hittite-ruled town on the Euphrates, is destroyed in 1187 BCE by one dating (the second year of Meli-Shipak II of Babylon), though the siege is hard to date. A text mentions a siege by Tarwi in a "year of distress" (famine). About 1,100 of its tablets are known.