Essays Tagged: "Amarna Letters"
Akhenaten and the Amarna Letters
. He enraged the priests, emptied the great temples, and moved his capital downriver from Thebes to Amarna, which was a site he named after his new god. During the rule of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, ... pparent early in his reign that Akhenaten had the intention of changing the Egyptian culture. The " Amarna Letters , " written on clay tablets, were discovered in the city of Akhetaten. The letters su ...
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