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  Tel El Amarna
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.
Amarna remains a source of disagreement with many scholars.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/telelamarna.html   (643 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tell el Amarna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TELL EL AMARNA [Tell el Amarna] or Tel el Amarna, ancient locality, Egypt, near the Nile and c.60 mi (100 km) N of Asyut.
Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan.(Review)
Además, 120 piezas del Museo de El Cairo hablan de los misterios que rodean a los reyes de Egipto.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TellelA1ma.asp   (315 words)

  
 TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
The ruins mark the site of the ancient city Khut Aten, which Amenophis IV built in order to escape the predominant influence of the old religion of Egypt represented by the priesthood at Thebes, and to establish a new cult, the worship of Aten, the sun's disk.
The letters are in the Babylonian tongue modified by contact with the speech of the country, a kind of early Aramaic (Conder, The Tell Amarna Tablets, X; Dhorme, "La langue de Canaan," Revue Biblique, Juillet, 1913, 369).
Conder, The Tell Amarna Tablets; Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln, in Heinrich's Vorderasiatische Bibliothek, II; Petrie, Tell el Amarna Tablets; idem, Syria and Egypt from the Tell el Amarna Letters; idem, Hist of Egypt; Jeremias, The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East.
www.bible-history.com /isbe/T/TELL+EL-AMARNA;+TABLETS   (2807 words)

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