The Tell Amarna Tablets

ISBN: 9781332351015 出版年：2016 页码：229 C R Conder Forgotten Books

The Tell Amarna Tablets were discovered in 1887 by a peasant woman of Egypt, amid the ruins of the palace of Amenophis IV., midway between Thebes and Memphis, at the site of the ancient Antinoe, about 180 miles by river south of Cairo. Those tablets under present consideration date about 1480 b.c., and are written to the King 'of Egypt and to certain of his officials by Amorites, Phoenicians, Philistines and others.