Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed

by Eric H. Cline

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East

In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691274088
• ISBN13: 9780691274089
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages