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Tel El-Amarna

or TELL EL- AMARINA, the modern name of a mass of ruins a little to the N. of Assiout, on the E. bank of the Nile, representing the capital of the heretic Egyptian king AMENHOTEP IV. (q. v.). Here was found in 1887 a collection of tablets in Babylonian cuneiform, at that period-some time before the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt-used as a kind of lingua franca for all western Asia. These tablets were mainly reports from the Egyptian governors of Palestine, Syria, Mesoof Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, some of which implored help against the HITTITES (q. v.), then pressing S. Of about 230 tablets 160 went to Berlin Museum and 82 to the British Museum.

TEL-EL-KEBIR (the great mound), a locality midway on the railway between Ismailia and Cairo; the scene on the morning of Sept. 13, 1882, of the capture by Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley of Arabi Pasha's entrenched camp, defended by 26,000 men. The British loss was about 430 killed and wounded, the Egyptians' 1,500.

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