EditorialHead from a statuette, New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, ca. 1353?1336 B.C., From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Amarna (Akhetaten), House no. 68 (T36.68), Egypt Exploration Society excavations, 1930?31, Limestone, paint, H. 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.); W. 3.1 cm (...
EditorialLetter to Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) from Burnaburias, a king of the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia. It is written in Mesopotamian Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the period. This clay tablet is one of 382 cuneiform documents discovered in 1887 in Egy...