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Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. His many books include 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed<\/em>; After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations<\/em>; Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works<\/em>; and (with Glynnis Fawkes) 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed<\/em> (all Princeton University Press).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten\u2019s capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. <\/em>Love, War, and Diplomacy<\/em><\/a> tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed. Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun\u2019s immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt\u2019s pharaohs. A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy <\/em>transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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