Washukanni
Washukanni was the capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, from around 1500 BCE to the 13th century BCE. Its precise location is unknown. A proposal locates it under the largely unexcavated mound of Tell el Fakhariya, near Tell Halaf in Syria, but this idea was rejected by Edward Lipinski, however this identification received a new support by Stefano de Martino, Mirko Novák and Dominik Bonatz due to recent archaeological excavations by a German team. Its etymology in Sanskrit, which was used by the Mitanni, is "Vasukhani", वसुखनी, the "mine of wealth" as the Vasu are the gods who are wealth-givers.
The city is known to have been sacked by the Hittites under Suppiluliuma I in the first years of his reign, whose treaty inscription relates that he installed a Hurrian vassal king, Shattiwaza. The city was sacked again by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I around 1290 BCE, but very little else is known of its history.
