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EGYPT - Discovering Amarna Letters Archive — Part One - ERIC-CLINE-LOVE-WAR-DIPLOMACY-
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1909 CAIRO
Discovering Amarna Letters Archive — Part One
Professor Eric H. Cline, author of Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, recounts how ancient cuneiform clay tablets surfaced at Amarna, Egypt, in the 1880s. Written in Akkadian during the 14th century BCE, these royal letters detail diplomatic relations, gift exchanges, and regional conflicts between Pharaoh Akhenaten and rival Bronze Age rulers, sparking a competitive Victorian rush to decipher them. (1)
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