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Akhetaten
Akhetaten, known today as Amarna, was the capital city founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten in Middle Egypt in the fourteenth century BCE. It was abandoned soon after his death. The site is famous for the Amarna letters, diplomatic correspondence in Akkadian between Egypt and powers such as Babylon, Mitanni and the Hittites, which makes it important for the history of several Bronze Age empires.
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