... daughters were born by year 10 of Akhenaten's reign (1984). Akhetaten also provides us with a view of Akhenaten's correspondance with the rest of the ancient world. A large cache of clay tablets, now known as the Amarna letters, was found in the city. Aldred is of the opinion that these ... tablets represent refuse; that the letters would be transported in the form of clay tablets and then transcribed onto papyrus in hieroglyphics for official records, and that the tablets would be thrown away. In any case, they depict a very confused situation. These tablets span the later part of Amen...

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