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Love, War, and Diplomacy
The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They RevealedBy Eric H. ClineNarrated by John ChancerLength8h 4m
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This audiobook narrated by John Chancer gives a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East
In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's 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.
Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.
Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric 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's 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's pharaohs.
A monumental achievement,
Love, War, and Diplomacy 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's.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length8 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byJohn Chancer
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 11, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit
15Part 4 - Lab'ayu and Sons, Inc
2Introduction - An Unexpected Discovery
16Chapter 14 - The Sons of Lab'ayu
3Part 1 - The Players
17Part 5 - The Game - Winners and Losers
4Chapter 2 - Budge
18Chapter 16 - Publish or Perish
5Chapter 3 - Sayce
19Chapter 17 - Bezold and Budge, Finally
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6Chapter 4 - The Young Berliners
20Chapter 18 - Facts and Alternative Facts
7Part 2 - The Fellowship of the Kings
21Part 6 - Amurru, Byblos, and Jerusalem
8Chapter 6 - An Arzawan Alliance
22Chapter 20 - Triple-A Roster
9Chapter 7 - All's Fair in Love and War (and Diplomacy)
23Chapter 21 - Gaslighting the Pharaoh
10Chapter 8 - The Hand of Nergal
24Chapter 22 - If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem
11Part 3 - The Rules and the Race
25Part 7 - The Social Networks and Globalized World of the Late Bronze Age
12Chapter 10 - Lost in Translation
26Chapter 24 - Three Degrees of Separation
13Chapter 11 - Flights of Fancy
27Epilogue - After Amarna
14Chapter 12 - Winckler and Abel
28End Credit
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