Tel-el-amarna

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A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis,forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archivechamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (calledthe Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, formingthe Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV.and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. Itis an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to1370 b. c..