Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the...
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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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Stone quarries of ancient Egypt (section El Amarna)
limestone, sandstone, and petrified wood. The El Amarna site is located a short distance from El Amarna. Typical materials known from this site are: Alabaster...
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Amarna Miller is a Spanish YouTuber and former adult film actress, producer, director, and writer. Miller, whose stage name comes from an Egyptian archaeological...
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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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by Ludwig Borchardt in Haoue Q 47 at Tell-el Amarna in 1912. When the archaeological finds from Tell-el Amarna were divided on 20 January 1913, Gustave...
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Labaya (category Amarna letters writers)
is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated "EA", for 'el Amarna'). He is the author of letters EA 252–54. Labaya was active over the whole...
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Urban planning in ancient Egypt (section Amarna)
best preserved, and has been most thoroughly delved, at El Lahun, Deir el-Medina, and Amarna, though some averment of urban planning exists at other sites...
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Northern tombs Southern tombs Desert altars AMARNA Located in Middle Egypt, the Tombs of the Nobles at Amarna are the burial places of some of the powerful...
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Akhenaten (section Founding Amarna)
quarry in Deir el-Bersha, just north of Akhetaten, from the pharaoh's sixteenth regnal year. The text refers to a building project in Amarna and establishes...
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If Nefertiti did rule as Pharaoh, her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes. In...
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Mitanni Letter (redirect from Amarna letter EA 24)
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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1348 BC–1336 BC: Akhenaten and his family, relief from Akhetaten (modern el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung...
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during the Amarna Period of the 18th Dynasty. Smenkhkare was husband to Meritaten, the daughter of his likely co-regent, Akhenaten. Since the Amarna period...
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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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river. Aram-Naharaim is also mentioned as Nahrima of the Arameans in the El-Amarna letters. It is mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament...
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and his successors. These tablets were discovered in el-Amarna and are therefore known as the Amarna letters. All of the tablets are inscribed with cuneiform...
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tahtib. Similar engravings can be seen in the archaeological site of Tell el Amarna (XVIII Dynasty, 1350 BC), some 60 km south of Minya. In addition to its...
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104. The hymn-poem provides a glimpse of the religious artistry of the Amarna period expressed in multiple forms encompassing literature, new temples...
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EA 289:014, Urušalim e.g. in EA 287:025. Transcription online at "The El Amarna Letters from Canaan". Tau.ac.il. Retrieved 11 September 2010.; translation...
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Amarna Letter EA 16 is part of the corpus of the Amarna Letters, a set of letters written mostly in Akkadian found at the Egyptian capital of Tell El-Amarna...
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"Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal...
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Alashiya (category Amarna letters locations)
name may be the origin of the later Biblical term Elishah. Some of the Amarna letters are from the king or the ministers of Alashiya. They concern mostly...
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Amarna letter EA 252, titled: Sparing One's Enemies, is a square, mostly flat clay tablet letter written on both sides, and the bottom edge. Each text...
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refers to the city as "Jerusalem". An example of these records are the Amarna letters, several of which were written by the chieftain of Jerusalem Abdi-Heba...
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Tushratta (category Amarna letters writers)
location. Amarna letter EA 17, Amarna letter EA 18, Amarna letter EA 19, "Love and Gold" Amarna letter EA 20, Amarna letter EA 21, Amarna letter EA 22...
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Prophet, pp. 75-78 Martin, G. T. (1989). The Royal Tomb at El-'Amarna. The Rock Tombs of El-'Amarna, Part 8. Volume 2. London: Egypt Exploration Society. p...
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Ay (pharaoh) (section Amarna Period)
memoriae against him and the other pharaohs associated with the unpopular Amarna Period. Ay is believed to have been from Akhmim. During his short reign...
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University with Yohanan Aharoni with a thesis on the importance of the Amarna letters for the history of Israel. A time as a lecturer in archaeology and...
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