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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tel-el-Amarna \Tel`-el-A*mar"na\, n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.]
A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis,
forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose
archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of
tablets (called the
{Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, {tablets}) was found here,
forming the Asiatic correspondence (
{Tel-el-Amarna letters}) of Amenophis IV. and his father,
Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an
important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400
to 1370 b. c..
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