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	The Armana Tablets
		The first Amarna tablets were found by local inhabitants in 1887.
		These letters were sent to the Egyptian Pharaohs Amenophis III and his son Akhenaten around the middle of the 14th century B.C. The correspondents were kings of Babylonia, Assyria, Hatti and Mitanni, minor kings and rulers of the Near East at that time, and vassals of the Egyptian Empire.
		The Amarna letters from Canaan have proved to be the most important source for the study of the Canaanite dialects in the pre-Israelite period.
	www.crystalinks.com /armanatablet.html (215 words)

	Amarna The Place - Amarna Project
		Amarna occupies a large bay of almost flat desert hemmed in for much of its perimeter by cliffs that rise by approximately 100 metres to a high desert plateau.
		Tell el-Amarna (often abbreviated to Amarna) is a modern name that applies to an extensive archaeological site that is primarily the remains of an ephemeral capital city built and abandoned within about fifteen years during the late Eighteenth Dynasty (in the New Kingdom), between about 1347 and 1332 BCE.
		But in the fifth year of his reign he chose Amarna as the site for an entirely new place of royal residence where temples to the Aten and palaces for the Royal Family could be built unchallenged by the works of the past.
	www.amarnaproject.com /pages/amarna_the_place (1753 words)

	Model Of The City - Amarna Project
		A scene in one of the rock tombs at Amarna (no. 14, belonging to May or Maya) seems to show the front of a palace (presumably the Great Palace) behind a stretch of river bank at which boats are moored.
		Amarna must have lain above the maximum height of the annual inundation of the river, and primarily on desert sediments.
		One of the tombs at Amarna, no 9, belonged to the Chief of the Police of Amarna, called Mahu, and within it, he and his men are shown as a chariot corps.
	www.amarnaproject.com /pages/model_of_the_city (8863 words)

	Amarna Letters
		Five cuneiform tablets were found naming Tushratta, a Mitanni king who was father-in-law to Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, another five from the Babylonian king Kadashman-Enlil and a few letters mentioning by name the Kassite king of Babylonia Burnaburiash, and the king of Arzawa.
		These tablets from Retenu and Canaan document the decay of Egyptian influence in the Levant, how the supporters of the status quo were replaced, left to their own, insufficient, devices by their southern overlord.
		The new datum of 1012 NC Discovery of the Amarna Tablets by E.A. Wallis Budge
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/amarnaletters.htm (959 words)

	The Amarna Tablets
		A century after the discovery of the Amarna tablets and 80 years after their classical publication by Knudtzon, William L. Moran of Harvard University published new translations of the Amarna letters, first in French (Moran 1987), then in English (Moran 1992).
		I have therefore decided to put my files at the disposal of all interested students of the Amarna letters, as incomplete and as unpolished as it may be at this time.
		Not all the letters found in Amarna are included here, only the ones that stem from Canaan or its immediate vicinity, mainly Amurru (with a few letters sent from Egypt to these areas).
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/semitic/amarna.html (2086 words)

	Amarna Letters
		Five cuneiform tablets were found naming Tushratta, a Mitanni king who was father-in-law to Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, another five from the Babylonian king Kadashman-Enlil and a few letters mentioning by name the Kassite king of Babylonia Burnaburiash, and the king of Arzawa.
		These tablets from Retenu and Canaan document the decay of Egyptian influence in the Levant, how the supporters of the status quo were replaced, left to their own, insufficient, devices by their southern overlord.
		The new datum of 1012 NC Discovery of the Amarna Tablets by E.A. Wallis Budge
	www.terraflex.co.il /ad/egypt/amarnaletters.htm (0 words)

	Tell el Amarna - LoveToKnow 1911
		TELL EL AMARNA, the name now given to a collection of ruins and rock tombs in Upper Egypt near the east bank of the Nile, 58 m.
		In the Rolls House were discovered in 1887 by the fellahin some 300 clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform characters.
		The tombs and the great stelae sculptured on the cliffs which mark the bounds of the city of Akhet-Aton have been the object of special study by N. de G. Davies on behalf of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tell_el_Amarna (528 words)

	Amarna
		Amarna (also known as el-Amarna or Tell el-Amarna), an archeological site on the location of the city of Akhetaton[?], which was built c.
		The site was discovered in 1887 when a local woman digging for sebbakh[?] uncovered a cache of 300 tablets (now known as the Amarna Tablets[?] or Letters).
		These tablets were of correspondences of the Pharaoh and were written in Akkadian, the language commonly used in the Near East in the Late Bronze Age[?] for diplomatic communications.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/Amarna.html (129 words)

	EL-AMARNA and AKHETATEN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km (250 miles) north of Luxor.
		There are 382 known clay cuneiform tablets, most of which derive from "the place of letters of Pharaoh", a building identified as the official "records office" and record selections of diplomatic correspondence from the Pharaoh.
		The exact chronology of these tablets is still debated, but they span a 15-30 year period beginning around the year of Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC) and continuing through to no later than the first year of Tutankhamun's reign (1336-1327 BC), with the majority dating to the time of Akhenaten.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /amarna.htm (1249 words)

	UFO Area - Discovery of the Amarna Tablets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By degrees I came to the conclusion that the tablets were certainly not forgeries, and that they were neither royal annals nor historical inscriptions in the ordinary sense of the word, nor business or commercial documents.
		The opening words of nearly all the tablets proved them to be letters or despatches, and I felt certain that the tablets were both genuine and of very great historical importance.
		The only effect of his article was to increase the importance of the tablets in the eyes of the dealers, and, in consquence, to raise their prices, and to make the acquisition of the rest of the "find" more difficult for everyone.
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_discoveryof.html (2329 words)

	The Rocks Cry Out
		Written by several kings who ruled their provinces and cities under the rule of Egypt, these letters are of vital importance to scholars because they describe conditions in Canaan only one or two generations after the Exodus at the very time the Bible tells us the conquest of the Promised Land occurred.
		Other correspondence in the series of Tell el Amarna Letters indicates that the territory ruled by the king of Jerusalem at that time (during the days of Joshua and Gideon) included land extending from Hebron in the south to the town of Bethel in the north.
		In conclusion, an analysis of the Tell el Amarna Letters clearly confirms that, in the 14th century b.c., the city of Jerusalem was a capital city ruling over a considerable amount of territory in Canaan under the oversight of the Egyptian pharaohs.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/the_rocks_cry_out.html (2761 words)

	Tel El Amarna
		About 400 clay tablets were eventually found, and they realized that the artifacts were from the time of Akhenaten, a pharaoh that ruled 35 centuries earlier.
		To understand the history of Amarna, it is necessary to learn about the man who built it.
		The name Amarna is also used to describe the period of time including Akhenaten and his kin, the most well known of which is Tutankhamun.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/telelamarna.html (643 words)

	The Amarna Letters
		The Amarna letters, a unique corpus of documents from the Egyptian New Kingdom, were discovered in the late 1880s by Egyptian peasants (Moran 1992: xiii).
		As soon as their authenticity was confirmed and Egyptologists were able to evaluate their contents, it became clear that the stash of clay tablets represented one of the most important historical sources on the socio-political environment of the ancient Near East.
		The Amarna letters represent the diplomatic correspondence between the pharaohs of the Amarna period and their contemporaries in Canaan, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Aegean.
	www.courses.psu.edu /cams/cams400w_aek11/amarnal.html (1123 words)

	El Amarna Tablets
		The city is now well known as Tell el-Amarna, the capital of the remarkable king Amenhotep IV, or Akhenaten, who made a vain attempt to revolutionise the religion of his country, and was the father-in-law of Tutankhamen, the discovery of whose tomb by Lord Carnarvon made such a sensation at the end of 1922.
		The tablets of Tell el-Amarna, however, raised an almost equal sensation among Oriental scholars; for here, in the middle of Egypt, were documents written not after the manner of the country, in the Egyptian language and upon papyrus, but engraved upon clay in the unmistakable cuneiform, or wedge-shaped script characteristic of Mesopotamia (see Plate II).
		For these tablets proved to be the official correspondence of Egyptian governors or vassal-princes, from various places in Palestine and Syria, with their overlord, the king of Egypt.
	www.katapi.org.uk /BibleMSS/ElAmarnaT.htm (336 words)

	A New Chronology [Free Republic]
		The Amarna tablets paint a picture of a tribal Palestine ruled by various city-state rulers of Canaanite, Philistine and Israelite/Hebrew origin as well as the larger state of Amurru/Aram to the north, very much corroborating the biblical picture of Samuel.
		Mentioned several times in the tablets are the Habiru' people, who are stateless wanderers outside the rule of the city-states of Palestine and Syria, often employed as mercenaries by these rulers to protect their interests.
		Labayu in the Amarna letters was active in fighting against the Philistines on the coastal plain to the south-west but was unable to conquer their cities.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38b225587b9e.htm (10166 words)

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		The Tell el Amarna tablets describe a tumultuous situation, which must have been already in existence some years before the first of those tablets (1380 BC) was written.
		The Tell el Amarna tablets, in short, threw an entirely new light on one of the darkest, yet most important, periods of Palestinian history, and opened a new epoch in the study of Biblical and indeed of Egyptian archaeology, revolutionizing in many ways our notions of the ancient history of the Near East.
		In other words, the Tell el Amarna tablets are believed to paint from the Canaanite side the same picture which the historian of Joshua-Judges paints from the Hebrew side, thus not only fixing the date of the Conquest but greatly illuminating it in every way.
	www.katapi.org.uk /BAndS/ChVIII.htm (3098 words)

	The Ancient City of Akhetaten at el-Amarna
		The area of the city and its surrounding property was fixed by copies of decrees carved on fourteen tablets embedded in the cliffs on either side of the river.
		The most basic element of an Aten temple is the altar, to which a ramp or stairway ascends from the west in the middle of the court, surrounded by a temenos wall.
		This is actually where the famous Amarna Letters were discovered by a peasant lady in 1888.
	touregypt.net /featurestories/amarna.htm (3402 words)

	Tell el Amarna - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tell el Amarna or Tel el Amarna, ancient locality, Egypt, near the Nile and c.60 mi (100 km) N of Asyut.
		About 400 tablets with inscriptions in Akkadian cuneiform were found there in 1887.
		Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan.(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tellelama.html (316 words)

	CHRONOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE FIRST AND SECOND MILLENNIUM Part 2: REVISED CHRONOLOGY AND ASSYRIA
		The misdating of Amarna related artefacts to the Middle Kassite era produces a double the Kassite artefacts and a void of Late Babylonian ones - the so-called Mesopotamian "dark age".
		One objection to the proposed model is that Amarna period Burnaburiash, king of Karduniash and Assur-uballit, king of Assyria, are already identified as Burnaburiash II, a Kassite king, and Assur-uballit I, King of Assyrian, dates independently to the 14th century.
		The conventional views of the Amarna identities are dubious and stem from historical coincidences of names 400 to 500 years earlier.
	www.ldolphin.org /alanm/chron2.html (6086 words)

	Tell El-amarna; Tablets (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		The contest resulted in the destruction of some of the tablets by ignorant natives and the final distribution of the remainder and of the broken fragments, as noted at the beginning of this article.
		The tablets of the royal correspondence from Babylonia and one tablet from Mitanni (B 153) are of fine Babylonian clay.
		A number of tablets have red points, a kind of punctuation for marking the separation into words, probably inserted by the Egyptian translator of the letters at the court of the Pharaoh.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/8649 (2916 words)

	Amarna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The frequent designation "Tel el-Amarna" for the city is inaccurate: nowhere do the ancient remains constitute a mound of eroded architecture that would warrant the description of a "Tel" (Arabic: "city mound"), so common elsewhere in the region.
		Cyril Aldred notes that the name "Tel el-Amarna" is a misunderstanding of the name for one of the modern villages near the ruins, Et Til el Amarna.
		These tablets recorded select diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaoh and were predominantly written in Akkadian, the lingua franca commonly used during the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East for such communication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amarna (1275 words)

	akhenaton_casa_privadas_amarna
		The Amarna Letters discovery is highly important in the study of Biblical Archaeology because they refer to events in the middle east in the 15th and 14th centuries BC.
		The Tablets are from 3 inches wide and anywhere from 3 to 9 inches in length, and they are inscribed on both sides.
		An archive of diplomatic correspondence between the kings of the Amarna period and rulers of the Levant was found in the records office.
	www.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/NOTICIAS/AKHENATON_archivos_tablillas_amarna.htm (1183 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Amarna Letters: Books: William L. Moran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many of the tablets are incomplete or badly damaged, and of the 382 tablets discovered, the translations of about 350 are included in this book, with about 25 of these being too fragmentary for translation.
		Akhetaton was never re-occupied in any significant way, and in her ruins were found hundreds of administrative documents known as the Amarna tablets (the first batch found in 1887 by locals).
		If you've been tantalized over the years by references to the Amarna Letters in scholarly works, and disappointed by the few examples in Pritchards, here they are, finally and completely, in all their repetitious, formulaic, fragmentary glory.
	www.amazon.ca /Amarna-Letters-William-L-Moran/dp/0801867150 (1646 words)

	A New Chronology
		The tablets were carried to Egypt, transcribed onto papyrus from the original Akkadian/Cuneiform script into hieroglyphs for the pharaoh to read and then the original tablets stored at Amarna to be discovered some 3000 years later.
		Mentioned several times in the tablets are the Habiru'; people, who are stateless wanderers outside the rule of the city-states of Palestine and Syria, often employed as mercenaries by these rulers to protect their interests.
		Note : The attended reader have already mentioned that the Pharaoh of the Amarna Letters was Amenhotep IV also known as Akenaten or Echnaton, the founder of the cult of Aten (a monotheistic belief) one of the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt..
	www.earth-history.com /Egypt/new-chronology.htm (12934 words)

	Cuneiform tablets from Amarna
		In 1887 a woman from Amarna found nearly 400 cuneiform tablets.
		The tablets contain international diplomatic correspondence of the Amarna period, of the utmost importance for studying the history of the Near East in the 14th century BC.
		Petrie located the building in which the tablets were found and finally uncovered some further tablets.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /amarna/cuneiform.html (63 words)

	The Tell el-Amarna Tablets
		The Tell el-Amarna Tablets are a collection of some 350 clay tablets found in 1887 amid the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton (modern Tell el-Amarna) about midway between Memphis and Thebes.
		All these documents throw considerable light on the conditions of Western Asia from about 1500 to 1300 B.C.; they contain precious information concerning the history, geography, religion, and language of the predecessors of the Hebrews in Palestine, and, in many cases, illustrate and confirm what we already know from the Old Testament.
		The best work on the Tell el-Amarna tablets (transcription, German translation, glossary, and notes) is that of KNUDTZON, Die El Amarna Tafeln in Hinrich's Vorderasiatische Bibliothek, II (Leipzig, 1907-9).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tell_el-amarna_tablets.html (0 words)

	The Tel Amarna Tablets
		These tablets were letters from foreign rulers, mainly of city-states but also of the more powerful northern kingdoms of present-day Syria, Turkey and Cyprus, as well as what was once Babylonia and Assyria.
		The inhabitants of Hebron were never apparently disturbed by the chariots, and appear in the Tel Amarna tablets as marauders of the Egyptian stations.
		The Amarna tablets tell of the whole region of Syria dominated by kings of Amorite stock including a king Aziru.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/amarna.html (0 words)

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