Amarna

origins or long term existence are the Lukka. The Lukka are one of those tribes who are thought to have come from the Anatolia area, but there is nothing to indicate exactly where. They are indicated first in the Byblios Obelisk then later in the Amarna Letters and lastly in the Onomasticon. Even though there is plenty of evidence to indicate their participation in raids acted out by the Sea Peoples, there is little else to lend suggestion as to who they were or where they came…

The Great Hymn to the Aten is an epic poem written during the reign of King Amenhotep IV in the 1300’s BC. The center of this was Aten, the sun god, and was is referred to as Atenism. This hymn was the description of Aten and praise of his power. “You made the earth as you wished, you alone, All peoples, herds and flocks;...” (Puchner 31). There are several references to creation in various forms, all attributed to Aten. Up until this point, Egypt, like many cultures were polytheistic…

The Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun Ever heard the phrase Kings never die, well neither do Pharaohs. For year’s archeologist have been discovering tombs of pharaohs and their families trying to get an understanding of who they were. Many tombs of the pharaohs were ravaged through and amazing art was taken by tomb robbers but still they were able to find beautiful works of art and even funeral masks. Arguably the most famous mask to date is King Tutankhamun. Along with the mask there were many…

Long ago in ancient Egypt, there was a powerful queen by the name of Nefertiti who ruled during one of Egypt’s most prosperous periods: the end of the 18th dynasty. Her life is shrouded in mystery, for in those times was not recorded as accurately and in detail as it is today. One of the most important events of her rule was her sudden disappearance from Egyptian history. In Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen, Joyce Tyldesley uses archeological evidence and excerpts from articles written by trusted…

Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV was the Pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th century. He was married to Nefertiti and had six girls with her. Four of them died at a young age from an unknown disease. However, they are believed to have passed away from a plague that was going around Egypt at the time. He also had a few other wives, but they were unnamed. He ruled Egypt for seventeen years and was known as a rebel king because he made some of the biggest changes in all of Egyptian history.…

Samuel as instructed by the Lord as a king. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. His birth fulfilled Micah’s prophecy. Bethlehem became something like the official place of the family line of David. It is believed that Bethlehem is possibly mentioned in the Amarna Letters, the 14th-century-BCE diplomatic documents that were found at Tell el-Amarnain Egypt. Bethlehem is first talked about in scripturesdealing with Rachel, who died near there (Genesis 35:19). Bethlehem is also the location for most of…

appear in Deuteronomy (77-78). Next, Moran defines the love found in Deuteronomy as a loyal love coming out of reverence, a “covenantal love” (78). To see if this idea of love is indeed original, Moran looks at other near eastern sources. In the Amarna period, he finds love and friendship to be used to describe international relations (79). It is used to describe the relationships between ruler and ruler, sovereign and vassal, and subjects to king (79). All these relationships imply a…

Judges: The book of judges is a book written in essence to raise awareness of Gods greatness as the ultimate judge and that “religious compromise lead to moral corruption” (Hindson & Towns, 2013). It is said to be written by the prophet Samuel, no actual proof of authorship has been confirmed, but he was a major spiritual leader in this time period (Hindson & Towns, 2013). Due to the characters listed in the book and assumed author, an estimated date of 1050-1000 BC has been given as well as a…

and model palettes. There were different types of jewelry such as faience rings, jasper, amulets, stones, faience beads. The interesting part was that the objects bear royal names. I saw a Canopic Jar whose lid represents one of the royal women in Amarna, Egypt. I also saw letters in Cuneiform which I learned in one of my classes that it was one of the earliest forms of writing. These letters, written in two dialects of the Akkadian language, were sent by the rulers of Assyria and Tyre to the…

(Taylor, B, Paldhe, M & MacWright, T. 2005). In the 14th century BCE, the current King was Akhenaten who decided to break the tradition and instituted that all his people must worship only one god, Aten where after he constructed a new capital at Amarna (McIntosh 2014: 26). After he passed away his youthful successor, Tutankhamun restored the capital’s reputation and the international trade flourished where after the Egyptians’ then had ruling eastwards (McIntosh 2014: 26). By the 11th century…