The Amarna Period, ANCIENT EGYPT: ca. 1353 – 1322 BC
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THEME: The reign of Akhenaten
Written in Akkadian, the language of Late Bronze Age diplomacy, the Amarna Letters document international relations between about 1360 and 1330 BC. They reveal that there were four superpowers: Egypt, the Hittites, Babylonia, and Mitanni (in eastern Syria), and their kings addressed each other as brothers. A new player was Assyria, but when king Aššur-uballit (r.1363–1328)
