A sample of sites where important inscriptions have been found

Amarna archive Cache of clay tablets, now 382 in number, discovered in 1887 on the site of elAmarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. ree hundred and y of the tablets are letters, or copies of letters, exchanged by the pharaoh Amenhotep III (1390-1352) and his successor Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (1352-1336) with foreign rulers or with the pharaoh’s vassal subjects in SyriaPalestine. (A few of the letters also date to Akhenaten’s successors Smenkhkare and Tutankhamun.) e remaining thirty-two tablets consist of syllabaries, lexical lists and mythological texts. With the exception of two pieces of correspondence in Hittite, one in Assyrian, and one in Hurrian, the Amarna documents are written in Akkadian.