• Tell Amarna is an archaeological site near the village Amarnah in northern Syria, on the west bank of the Euphrates. The site was investigated as part...
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    Amarna letters (/əˈmɑːrnə/; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna")...
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    distinguished from Tell Amarna in Syria, a Halaf period archaeological tell.) English Egyptologist Sir John Gardner Wilkinson visited Amarna twice in the 1820s...
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  • was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittite and...
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    Tunip (category Amarna letters locations)
    Tunip (probably modern Tell 'Acharneh) was a city-state along the Orontes River in western Syria in the Late Bronze Age. It was large enough to be an...
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    "Characterization study of Halaf ceramic production at Tell Amarna (Euphrates Valley, Syria)". hdl:2268/102885. Brown, Brian A.; Feldman, Marian H. (2013)...
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  • The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen...
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    where Levites lived. It is mentioned twice in the cuneiform Amarna letters from Tell el-Amarna in 1350 BC. The relief depicts the Assyrians removing the...
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    Shuttarna II. The main focus of the Amarna letters, though, was a consequence of the realignment of power in Syria with the decline of Egyptian influence...
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    𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometers north-west...
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  • Hurrian language. The document was discovered during excavations at Tell el-Amarna in 1887. Alongside it, archives of the pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten...
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    Qatna (redirect from Tell al-Mishrifeh)
    المشرفة, Tell al-Mishrifeh; also Tell Misrife or Tell Mishrifeh) was an ancient city located in Homs Governorate, Syria. Its remains constitute a tell situated...
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    Canaan (category Amarna letters locations)
    religious innovations to attend to such messages. The Amarna letters tell of the Habiri in northern Syria. Etakkama wrote thus to the Pharaoh: Behold, Namyawaza...
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  • Ugarit (redirect from Ugrarit (Tell Shamra))
    (primarily Crete), Syria, the Hittites, cities of the Levant (including Ashkelon), and much of the eastern Mediterranean. Five of the Amarna letters found...
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  • Charles, ed. (1913). "The Tell el-Amarna Tablets" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Electronic version of the Amarna tablets...
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    Urkesh (redirect from Tell Mozan)
    Finds from the excavations at Tell Mozan are on display in the Deir ez-Zor Museum. Excavations are on hold during the Syrian Civil War since 2011. The site...
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    the foreign rulers of Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Canaan, Alashiya, Arzawa, Mitanni, and the Hittites. The Amarna letters portray the international situation...
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    kingdom of Geshur had disappeared from history. Two of the Late Bronze Age Amarna letters (EA 256 and EA 364) identify 'the land of Garu', as a disputed territory...
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    Gezer (redirect from Tell el-Jezary)
    destruction layer from this event was found in all excavated areas of the tell. The Tell Amarna letters, dating from the 14th century BCE, include ten letters from...
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  • Governorate in Syria in the north of the Akkar plain on the north of the al-Abrash River approximately 18 km (11 mi) south of Tartus. The tell was first surveyed...
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    Tel Lachish (redirect from Tell ed-Duweir)
    drawings of Tell el-Hesy. Also an original attempt of the only el Amarna letter found at site, Amarna Letters, EA 333. A Mound of Many Cities; or Tell El Hesy...
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    Tel Hazor (redirect from Tell Waqqas)
    Άσώρ), named in Arabic Tell Waqqas / Tell Qedah el-Gul (Arabic: تل القدح, romanized: Tell el-Qedah), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient...
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    Hurrians (category Ancient Syria)
    Alalakh, Amarna, Hattusa and Ugarit. Urkesh (Tell Mozan) Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe) Nagar (Tell Brak) Shehna and Shubat-Enlil (Tell Leilan) Kahat (Tell Barri)...
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    Sumur (Levant) (category Amarna letters locations)
    Sumura, Ṣimura, Zemar, and Zimyra. Sumur (or "Sumura") appears in the Amarna letters (mid-14th century BCE); Ahribta is named as its ruler. It was under...
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    Alashiya (category Amarna letters locations)
    the Amarna and Ugaritic letters sent from Alashiya. These examinations of the provenance of the clay used to create the tablets indicate that Syria could...
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    dynastic government to, Akhetaten, referred to as either Amarna, El-Amarna, or Tell el-Amarna by modern scholars. In Atenism, night is a time to fear....
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    Arqa (redirect from Tell Arqa)
    influence from Inner Syria and the use of copper. In the MB I the Akkar Plain still saw smaller settlements being added near Tell Arqa and the region reach...
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    Gath (city) (category Amarna letters locations)
    also appears in the Amarna letters. The site most favored as the location of Gath is the archaeological mound or tell known as Tell es-Safi in Arabic and...
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    1775–1761). Then they inhabited the vicinity of Terqa (modern-day Tell Ashara, Syria). The Suteans were also utilized as couriers by Hammurabi during the...
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  • Garakopaktapa Nakhchivan Tepe Tell Golemija ostrov (Durankulak lake) Tell Ezero Tell Karanovo Tell Solnitsata Tell Yunatsite Amarna Athribis Avaris Bubastis...
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