Amarna Period

The Amarna Period is the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, named after Amarna (Akhetaten), the new capital built by the pharaoh Akhenaten for the cult of the sun disc Aten. Its archive of clay tablets, the Amarna letters, preserves Egypt's correspondence with Babylon, Mitanni, the Hittites and vassal rulers in Canaan and Syria, including the kings of Ugarit. Egypt returned to its traditional religion under Tutankhamun.