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This document analyzes letters from the Amarna archive to trace tensions developing between Egypt and the Hittite Empire during the reign of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. It finds that letters describe initial Hittite incursions into Amqu after a ruler there, Aitakama of Kadesh, defected to the Hittites. While Egypt planned to attack Aitakama, major battles like the one at Kadesh occurred after the Amarna period. The document examines relations between Egypt, Mitanni, and the Hittites during the reigns of Ame

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Lucia Craciun89

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