The Amarna Letters preserve an inside look at Egyptian diplomacy, revealing how power brokers maneuvered, alliances were forged, and pharaohs were flattered. Scribes jot down the words of the powerful ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the capital of the Egyptian Empire: Akhetaten, which means Horizon of Aten. There, ...

While the U.N.'s Universal Postal Union credits the oldest known postal document to Egypt in 255 B.C., postal services date back to at least 500 B.C. and the establishment of the Persian Angarium, ...

Discovered in Egypt by Napoleon’s conquering forces, this plain-looking slab was the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the ...

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