Archive of Echnaton [Amarna letters]

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Archive of Echnaton [Amarna letters]

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Archive of Echnaton contains the diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru during the New Kingdom. The archive was founded by pharaoh Akhenaten (1350s – 1330s BC) during the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

See:

Jörgen A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln, mit Einleitung und Erläuterungen, Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1915 [Vol. 1. Die Texte.- Vol. 2. Anmerkungen und Register]

Relevant museums

Berlin, Neues Museum
Berlin, Neues Museum
Pergamon Museum in Berlin
Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
Paris, Louvre
Paris, Louvre
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
The national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden
The British Museum
The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.

Nearby sites

Achetaton, House of Life [Amarna]
Achetaon House o Life.
Amarna, Small Aton Temple
Small Aten temple.
Amarna, King`s House of Achetaton
King`s House
ACHETATON
Tell el-Amarna, also : Tall al-Amarna or Tall al-ʿAmarīnah is a site of the ruins and tombs of the city of Akhetaton (“Horizon of Aton”)

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