A newer view is that only the initial six rulers lived during that time and that after an interregnum, Khana re-emerged in the Middle Babylonian period under the last six kings.
Its capital Terqa was located 45 km north of Mari below the junction of Khabur River, roughly at the site of the modern Syrian town of Asharah.
Based on onomastic evidence they were related to the other West Semitic peoples known as the Amorites, such as the Yaminites, Rabbians and Habiru, originally coming from the deserts of Syria.
In an anekdote, the Kassite ruler Agum II of Babylon brought back from Hana the Statue of Marduk.
From the preserved list of rulers of Khana the name of one king, Khashtiliash, notably suggests a Kassite origin.
[4] One dedicatory inscription preserved in later copies records the return of Marduk’s statue from Hana by Agum II (Agum-Kakrime), a later Kassite king, most probably the first to rule over most of Babylonia (c.1570 BC).
The part of the inscription that mentions Hana reads: Even if the text does not convey clearly the relationship between the Kassite Agum II and "the Haneans" at that point, it nevertheless links Hana with the sack of Babylonia by the Hittite king Mursili I in c.1595 BC and the subsequent takeover by the Kassite dynasty in Babylonia.
It is possible that after the initial clashes with Babylon's Samsuiluna, the Kassites, originally coming from the Zagros Mountains, withdrew north occupying and imposing control over middle Euphrates including the lands of Khana.
[8] It is also reasonable to assume some sort of cooperation between the Hittite and Khana as the invading armies of Murshilish I must have passed through its territories.