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| Author | W. M. Flinders Petrie |
| Publisher | Forgotten Books |
| Publication Date | November 17, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1330203054 |
| Pages | 200 |
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Excerpt from Syria and Egypt: From the Tell El Amarna Letters
During the age of the decline of Egyptian power in Syria, when the great conquests of Tahutmes I, were all gradually lost, a splendid store of information was laid by for us in the cuneiform correspondence at Tell el Amarna. The clay tablets, mostly from Syria, but with a few duplicates of letters from Egypt, were deposited in "The place of the records of the palace of the king," as it is called upon the stamped bricks which I found still remaining there. A few years ago the natives, while plundering about the ruins and carrying off Akhenaten's bricks for their modern houses, lit upon this record chamber containing many hundreds of tablets.
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