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L'Enseignement d'Amenemopet est un ancien texte égyptien qui a pour la plupart survécu jusqu'à nos jours, datant de 1550 à 1350 avant notre ère. Elle est également appelée Enseignement (or Sagesse) d'Amenemopet, selon la façon dont le nom égyptien Amen-em-ope ia été prononcé. La littérature de sagesse égyptienne a inspiré plusieurs livres israéliens anciens, notamment le Deutéronome, les Psaumes, les Proverbes et la Sagesse de Joshua...
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Thutmose IV inherited the New Kingdom at its peak when his father Amenhotep II died. Amenhotep II had likewise inherited a strong empire from his father Thutmose III, and had organized a peace treaty with the Mitanni Empire to the north. Thutmose IV took the peace treaty one step further and married a Mitannian princess to secure a peaceful northern border. He is most famous for his activities at the great sphinx of Giza, and the Dream Stele he erected...
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"The Amarna Letters" are a collection of clay tablets found in the ruins of El Amarna, Egypt, in the 1880s. The city of El Amarna was built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten, during his religious reforms in the 1340s BC, but was then abandoned after he died, and Egypt reverted to worshiping the old gods. These letters provide a unique glimpse into a period of Egyptian history, that the Egyptians themselves attempted to erase. After Akhenaten's heir Tutankhamen...
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