Editing 14th century BC (section)

===Middle East and Africa===
[[File:Ancient_Near_East_1400BC.svg|thumb|300px|right|The Near East c. 1400 BC]]
[[Image:Egypt.ColossiMemnon.01.jpg|thumb|200px|The northern [[Colossi of Memnon|Colossus of Memnon]]]]
* 1400 – 1250 BC: the heyday of the [[Phoenicia]]n city of [[Ugarit]].<ref name="Papin">{{Cite book |first=Yves Denis |last=Papin |title=Chronologie de l'histoire ancienne |language=fr |publisher=Éditions Jean-paul Gisserot |year=1998 |isbn=978-2-87747-346-0 |page=12}}</ref> [[Ugaritic alphabet|A written alphabet]] is attested by Ugaritic texts.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Frank |last=Lalou |title=Les 22 clés de l'alphabet hébraïque |language=fr |publisher=Desclée De Brouwer |year=2016 |isbn=978-2-220-02025-9 |page=38}}</ref>
* c. 1380 – [[1330s BC|1336 BC]]: the reign of [[Šuppiluliuma I]], who leads the [[Hittites|Hittite Empire]] to its peak.<ref name="GRoux">{{Cite book |first=Georges |last=Roux |title=La Mésopotamie |language=fr |publisher=Seuil |year=1995 |isbn=978-2-02-008632-5 |page=559}}</ref> Šuppiluliuma I conquers the weakened [[Hurrians|Hurrian]] kingdom of [[Mitanni]] in the second half of the century. [[Assyria]] is emancipated under [[Ashur-uballit I]].<ref>{{Cite book |language=fr |first1=Jacques |last1=Freu |first2=Michel |last2=Mazoyer |title=L'apogée du nouvel empire hittite |publisher=L'Harmattan |year=2008 |isbn=978-2-296-21119-3 |page=13}}</ref>
* 1372 – 1350 BC: Akhetaton ([[Amarna]]) is constructed as the ephemeral capital of the pharaoh [[Akhenaten]] and dedicated to the sun god [[Aten]]. It is abandoned a few years after Akhenaten's death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=William Kelly |author-link=William Kelly Simpson |title=The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-300-07747-6 |page=181}}</ref>
* c. 1325 BC: Pharaoh [[Tutankhamun]] dies and is buried in a richly furnished tomb in the [[Valley of the Kings]].<ref name="GRoux"/>
* c. 1320 – 1295 BC: the sinking of the [[Uluburun shipwreck]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] south of modern-day [[Kaş]].<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Harry |last1=Fokkens |first2=Anthony |last2=Harding |title=The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-19-957286-1 |page=383}}</ref>
* [[Lycia]]n pirates from southwest [[Anatolia]] raid the kingdom of [[Alashiya]] in [[Cyprus]]. They are employed as mercenaries by the Hittites and take part in the [[Battle of Kadesh]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Nancy H. |last=Demand |title=The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4443-4234-5 |page=206}}</ref>
* An Ugaritic ''[[patera]]'', with its embossed decoration in concentric zones and hunting scenes, reveals an exceptional level in goldsmithing.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Bénédicte |last=Ottinger |title=L'art et la chasse |language=fr |publisher=Renaissance Du Livre |year=2002 |isbn=978-2-8046-0679-4 |page=12}}</ref>