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This publication is a synthesis of the results of a study that approaches the problem of locating the provenance of the Amarna Tablets from a new angle. Through mineralogical and chemical analyses of samples from over 300 tablets housed in museums in Berlin, London, Oxford, and Paris, the project aims at pinpointing their geographic origin and clarifying the geographic history of the ancient Near East. It launches a new analytical tool for resolving historical problems that have haunted research for decades. In the case of the Amarna archive, the introduction of this scientific technique...
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In the period between the end of the 2nd millennium and the 8th c.BC an extraordinary phenomenon known as 'Phoenician colonization' mature along the coast of the Levant. This paper examines the documentation of the Levantine area following a joint diachronic and, at the same time a 'local' perspective, and adopting an approach informed by postocolonial studies. A picture of complex relashionship which were at the origin of a new and distinctive phenomenon in the history of the Mediterranean emerges: the insertion of the Western Mediterranean region in the economy, politics and culture of...
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