Crossword-Solution: AMARNA 6 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

About the fifteenth century B.C., and probably for a long time before and after that period, the exceedingly complex syllabary of the Babylonians was the official means of communication throughout western Asia and between Asia and Egypt, as we know from the chance discovery of a collection of letters belonging to the Egyptian king Khun-aten, preserved at Tel-el-Amarna.

The reference to Iarmuti is interesting, for it is clearly the same place as Iarimuta or Iarimmuta, of which we find mention in the Tell el-Amarna letters.

Whether or not we identify the Khabiri with the Hebrews, the character of the latter's incursion is strikingly illustrated by some of the Tell el-Amarna letters.

Evidence that the word _mashkhalu_ was actually employed to denote a jar or vessel of some sort is furnished by one of the Tel el-Amarna letters which refers to "one silver _mashkhalu_" and "one (or two) stone _mashkhalu_".(3) In our text the determinative is absent, and it is possible that the word is used in another sense.

The situation in Egypt and Palestine about the time of the Exodus is made plain by the Tel-el-Amarna tablets.