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Ashkelon

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Walled port of southern Canaan, an Egyptian vassal whose ruler Yidya answers the crown in the Amarna Letters with assurances of supplies for the troops; a later rebel, its capture is boasted on Merneptah's stela.

War, diplomacy, and empire
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The Amarna Mysteries

Mystery novels of ancient Egypt, built on the scholarship of the Amarna period. Published by The WordFish Group GmbH, Basel.

The Series

  • Series overview
  • Geography of the series
  • Naming Ancient Egypt
  • Healers & poisons
  • Scribes & bureaucracy

The Amarna Period

  • Overview
  • Akhenaten & the Aten
  • The royal women
  • Succession & aftermath
  • Horemheb

Behind the Books

  • Overview
  • Methodology
  • Research
  • Reader's Companion
  • From the Notebook

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