Eric Cline

He does, of course, take on other wives, including... Hundreds of them.

Yes, yes.

But she is always referred to as the chief wife.

And she really seems to have had a say in things.

In fact, one of the letters, I think it's from Tushrata of Mitanni, which today would have been Syria...

He actually writes directly to Queen Ti saying, your husband has died.

Your son is now on the throne.

And that would be Aman Totsip III and Akhenaten.

He says, you are the connecting thread.

So I am writing to you as the important one.

And Tusharada knew which way his bread was buttered because she was the correct one to write to.

Yeah, very interesting.

But to my mind, though, one of the more interesting questions is what you've already referred to.

In the Amarna archives, there are no letters from Mycenae, no letters from Knossos, nothing from the Aegean.

And if I'm right about the connections between Greece and Egypt at the time—

There should have been letters, but there aren't.

So maybe they got slammed together on donkey back.

But, you know, there is also a story of one of the antiquities dealers stepping either onto or off of a train and a very large tablet that he had put into his pocket fell out and shattered.

on the platform.

That's actually how the Department of Antiquities came to know about these tablets.