ABSTRACT

THE EGYPTO-HITTITE ENTENTE AND THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SEA

T h e Egyptian Empire, at its zenith about 1400 B.C., no longer existed in 1360 at the end of Akhenaten’s reign. How did this sudden collapse come about ? It was due to a radical change, which dissolved at once the internal foundation and the external support of that political edifice.