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The Amarna letters

by William Moran

This volume presents an English translation of the Amarna letters, documenting the diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian court and neighbouring rulers during the mid-fourteenth century B.C.

Accession 1307 ISBN 0801867150 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
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