Biblical references to it include Second Chronicles, Chapter 35 and Jeremiah, Chapter 46.  
It was excavated by Leonard Woolley and a more famous individual, who partly described this experience in his The Wilderness of Zin.  Biblical references to it include Second Chronicles, Chapter 35 and Jeremiah, Chapter 46.  It was the culmination of a campaign that began with the Cyaxares and Nabopolossar destroying Nineveh and forcing the Assyrians to seek aid.  They turned to Pharaoh Necho, who was subsequently crushed at this site by Nabopolossar's son.  FTP, name this city at which, in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II defeated the Egyptians.
It was excavated by Leonard Woolley and a more famous individual, who partly described this experience in his The Wilderness of Zin.  
Carchemish [the more famous individual is T.E. Lawrence]