Author: William L. Moran
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: letters, amarna
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-31
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0801867150
ISBN-13: 9780801867156

An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vi

Author: James Thompson
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: experiment, amarna
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-07-20
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0595282962
ISBN-13: 9780595282968

As Pharaoh of Egypt, Akhenaten decided to turn into reality his dream of a better world, where everyone worshipped the same God. Pharaohs were absolute monarchs, yet Ancient Egypt was a conservative country that prized stability and continuity above all else. Would he succeed in getting an entire nation to abandon its traditional gods and goddesses? Would he find an heir willing to continue the experiment after he died? Would Egypt be able to survive as a major power with just a single deity to hold it together?Young adults will enjoy this fictionalized presentation of the lives of Akhenaten,

Author: Richard S. Hess
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Keywords: schools, oriental, research, american, series, personal, names, dissertation, amarna
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1996-10
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0931464714
ISBN-13: 9780931464713

Author: R. Hari
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: iconography, religion, religions, aten, humn, kingdom, amarna, period, new
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 9004070311
ISBN-13: 9789004070318