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Egyptian king Amenophis IV (Akhenaten) establishes his new capital, Akhetaten, at Amarna, where he and his wife, Nefertiti, devote themselves to the exclusive worship of the god of the sun disk, the Aten. At Akhetaten, there accumulates a voluminous cuneiform archive containing the correspondence of several late Eighteenth Dynasty kings with the rulers of city-states in the Levant, Syria, and Cyprus, and the Great Kings of Hatti, Mitanni, Assyria, and Babylonia.
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