Editing Kassites (section)

===Middle Bronze Age===
As the Babylonian empire weakened in the following years the Kassites became a part of the landscape, even at times supplying troops for Babylon.<ref>[https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/179897/1/179897.pdf] Claudia Glatz, et al., Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016–2017 Excavations at Khani Masi, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 123, No. 3 (July 2019), pp. 439-471</ref>
The Hittites had carried off the idol of the god [[Marduk]], but the Kassite rulers regained possession, returned Marduk to Babylon, and made him the equal of the Kassite Shuqamuna. Babylon under Kassite rulers, who renamed the city ''Karanduniash'', re-emerged as a political and military power in Mesopotamia.