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Excerpt from The Tell El Amarna Period: The Relations of Egypt and Western Asia in the Fifteenth Century B. C. According to the Tell El Amarna Tablets
Some alabaster slabs came to light at Tell el Amarna bearing the hieroglyphic names of King Amenophis IV. And his father, Amenophis III. These had evidently served as lids to the chests. Some tablets also were inscribed with notes in hieratic, written in red ink. But in spite of these exceptions, it was at once recognised that all the documents were written in Babylonian cuneiform. The reading of the introductory lines on various tablets served to show that the find consisted of part of the Egyptian state archives in the times of the two kings Amenophis III. And IV. Thus the first of the many startling discoveries that were to follow in such rapid succession was made in the recognition that about 1400 b.c. The Semitic speech of Babylon served as the language of diplomacy in the East.
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