Eric Cline

That is correct.

He comes into the picture a little bit later.

Our two Brits and five Germans are the ones mainly responsible, and they have everything translated, published, open access within a decade.

By 1896, they're out and available, including in English.

That's quick.

Yes.

But Knudsen is the man that pulls them all together because the main ones are in Cairo, London, and Berlin.

And Knudsen, 1907 and 1915, two volumes, he puts them all out.

But you had to be able to read German in that case because they all are in German.

That's right.

What these tablets revealed was an interconnected, globalized Mediterranean, if you will, from basically Italy over to Iran in modern terms and from Turkey down to Egypt.

These particular tablets are only...

dealing with the Near East, it's Egypt's connections.

But it did show that the Late Bronze Age was interconnected.

It was the high points before everything collapsed.

So what Akhenaten is going to do is inherit an international world that his father and even predecessors had set up.

I mean, we really, we have to go back to Hatshepsut and Thutmose III in the 15th century.

to find out exactly what happened with Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the 14th century.

So it's all an interconnected world.

Egypt was one of the major players because they had control of the gold.