The letters were found in Upper Egypt at Amarna, the modern name for the Egyptian capital of Akhetaten (el-Amarna), founded by pharaoh Akhenaten (1350s – 1330s BC) during the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
Widia (king), a king of Ashkalon in the 14th century BCE, who wrote several of the Amarna letters.
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Some of the earliest known diplomatic records are the Amarna letters written between the pharaohs of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the Amurru rulers of Canaan during the 14th century BC.
DU–Teššup was the son of Aziru, of the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence, and also the father of Aziru's successor, in Amurru-(regional Syria).
In the Amarna letters, Amenhotep III wrote to the Arzawan king Tarhunta-Radu that the "country Hattusa" was obliterated, and further asked for Arzawa to send him some of these Kaska people of whom he had heard.
Sayce identified Shinar as cognate with the following names: Sangara/Sangar mentioned in the context of the Asiatic conquests of Thutmose III (15th century BCE); Sanhar/Sankhar of the Amarna letters (14th century BCE); the Greeks's Singara; and modern Sinjar, in Upper Mesopotamia, near the Khabur River.
The 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence refers to mainland Usu in three letters of Abimilku of Tyre, Lebanon.
Moran, William L. The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992.
Tunip is especially mentioned in the Amarna letters of Aziru, residing in Amurru and in conflict with the king of Hatti.