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PETROGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF THE AMARNA TABLETS
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In the late nineteenth century, an archive of some 380 clay tablets was discovered at el-Amarna, on the east bank of the Nile about three hundred kilometers south of Cairo. The majority were recovered by local farmers and sold to museums, and only a small fraction of the library was unearthed in excavations. The tablets, written in Akkadian in cuneiform script, constituted part of the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaohs Amenophis III and Amenophis IV (Akhenaten) of the fourteenth century BC...
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Dan II. A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Tomb
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; Dan II. A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Tomb By Avraham Biran and Rachel Ben-Dov. Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 2002. Pp. vi + 248, 223 figures; 4 color plates; 20 tables; a catalogue of
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Beginner's luck for detectorist who found Bronze Age hoard
Yorkshire Post
; A metal-detecting beginner has spoken of his shock at uncovering a hoard of Bronze Age artefacts. John Minns described finding the collection as "sheer luck" and said he felt he was touching history. Mr Minns uncovered the historic find while on holiday near Berwick- upon-Tweed, Northumberland, two
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Found in a field, the last word in Bronze Age style.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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Long-term change in prehistoric Cyprus.(Cyprus Before, History: From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age)(Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus)(Book Review)
Antiquity
; LOUISE STEEL. Cyprus Before, History: from the earliest settlers to the end of the Bronze Age. xvii+279 pages, 70 figures, 29 b&w plates. 2004. London: Duckworth; 0-7156-3164-0 paperback 18 [pounds sterling]. PRISCILLA KESWANI. Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus (Monographs in
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Near Eastern Archaeology
; Not many architectural ruins have been discovered that date to the famously underrepresented Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE) in the highlands of Jordan. This is particularly so south of the Zarqa River in the central and southern Transjordanian highlands where settlement had declined and the extant
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Did the potter's wheel go out of use in Late Bronze Age Palestine?
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