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100 1 a| Cline, Eric H.,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyMhFqHdQ6HfQcRjcvJXd;

245 10 a| Love, war, and diplomacy :b| the discovery of the Amarna letters and the Bronze Age world they revealed /c| Eric H. Cline.;

264 1 a| Princeton, New Jersey :b| Princeton University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| viii, 4 unnumbered pages, 252 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed. Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt's pharaohs. A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today's."--c| Provided by publisher.;

630 00 a| Tell el-Amarna tablets.;

650 0 a| Assyro-Babylonian letters.;

650 0 a| Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.;

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651 0 a| Egyptx| Historyy| Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.;

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Love, war, and diplomacy : the discovery of the Amarna letters and the Bronze Age world they revealed / Eric H. Cline.

Author/creator	Cline, Eric H. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	viii, 4 unnumbered pages, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects	Tell el-Amarna tablets. Assyro-Babylonian letters. Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. Bronze age. Egypt--History. --Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C. Tell el-Amarna (Egypt)

Abstract	"In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed. Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt's pharaohs. A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today's."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9780691274089
ISBN	0691274088 hardcover

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