The Tell El Amarna Period

The Tell El Amarna Period is by Carl Niebuhr and treats the relations of Egypt and Western Asia in the Fifteenth Century B.C. according to The Tell El Amarna Tablets. The contents list chapters titled The Tablets, and How they were Found, The Egyptian Court and Administration, and Letters from Asiatic Kings.

The text says that in the beginning of 1888 some fellahìn digging for marl not far from the ruins came upon a number of crumbling wooden chests, filled with clay tablets closely covered on both sides with writing. The text also says it was at once recognised that all the documents were written in Babylonian cuneiform. The text says that a short time before his death Nimmuria had married another daughter of Tushratta, Tadukhipa, the long inventory of whose dowry was found at Tell el Amarna. The text states as an established fact that Eastern Cappadocia, the mountainous province of Melitene on the Upper Euphrates, was still known as Hanirabbat about 690 B.C.