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Amarna tablets

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Amarna tablets

Collection of Egyptian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions, found in the 1880s in the ruins of the ancient city of Akhetaton on the east bank of the Nile. The tablets are written in a Babylonian dialect and comprise royal archives and letters of Amenhotep III and Akhenaton. Most are in the British Museum, London.

They may have been discarded as inessential documents when the city was abandoned.



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