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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-23-09 03:25 PM
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Some internet resources on the Amarna tablets
The Amarna Letters
... In 1887 about 350 clay tablets were found at el Amarna, the site of Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten. Most of these are now in European Museums (200 in Berlin, 80 in the British Museum and twenty at Oxford). They are written in cuneiform characters in the diplomatic language of the day, Akkadian. Most of the letters are dated to the reigns of Amenhotep III (1402-1364) and Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV, 1350-1334). They reflect the lively correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru and the state of international affairs between Egypt and the major powers of the Middle East, Babylonia, Mitanni and Assyria, and the lesser countries such as Arzawa in western Anatolia ... http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/amarnaletters.htm

The Tell Amarna tablets (1894)
C. R. CONDER
http://www.archive.org/details/tellamarnatablet00palerich

Mineralogical and Chemical Study of the Amarna Tablets
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/projects/proj_amarna.html

... I have thus come to realize that I myself will never finish the elaborate and time consuming task of compiling anew the magnificent corpus of the Amarna texts. Still, it would be a shame to let the new transliterations sit in my computer for no one - or for only a limited group of people - to use. I have therefore decided to put my files at the disposal of all interested students of the Amarna letters, as incomplete and as unpolished as it may be at this time. Not all the letters found in Amarna are included here, only the ones that stem from Canaan or its immediate vicinity, mainly Amurru (with a few letters sent from Egypt to these areas). It thus include all letters starting with EA 60 from Amurru ...
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/amarna.html
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-23-09 05:14 PM
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1. Wow, how did they know back then to put internet resources onto those tablets?
;-)
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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-23-09 06:40 PM
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2. The Atlanteans, of course.
They had Web THREE point oh!
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-23-09 07:47 PM
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3. I think they ran the beta release of something or other on a pyramid cluster
but don't quote me on it
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