amarna letters

Ancient Egypt
154

Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed

After exploring the Bronze Age Collapse of 1177 BC in his previous two books (reviewed in AE 85 and AE 143), Eric Cline travels back some 200 years to investigate the inter-relationships between the ‘great kings’ and vassal rulers of…

Ancient Egypt
151

The Amarna Letters: The Syro-Levantine Correspondence

REVIEW BY MICHAEL TUNNICLIFFE This important work claims to be the first authoritative edition to combine both transliteration and translation of the Amarna Letters since their publication by Norwegian linguist J A Knudtzon in 1915. The 1992 volume by W…

Ancient Egypt
141

The great of dread in the foreign lands: Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III

Robert G Morkot tells us about the life and achievements of one of the most remarkable and influential characters of the New Kingdom.