Treaty of Kadesh
The Treaty of Kadesh is considered history's first-ever formal peace treaty between two nations. The treaty was originally, inscribed on a silver tablet, of which a clay copy survived in the Hittite capital of Hattusa. The Battle of Kadesh was a culmination of decades worth of conflict between ancient Egypt and the Hittites of Anatolia, exacerbated by the Hittites' capture of Kadesh from Egypt. Sixteen years after the battle, in 1259 BCE, the two kingdoms realized there was no victory in sight for either; instead, they put aside their warring past and proposed binding articles of peace known today as the 'Treaty of Kadesh', and is highly regarded in the modern diplomatic world, as evidenced in the symbolic replica on display at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. National Archeological Museum, Istanbul.
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