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I'm John Bachelor. Professor Eric Klein is here with his new book, Love War and Diplomacy.

The discovery of the Amarna letters in the Bronze Age world they revealed.

Professor is my guide back in time. I began several years ago with his publication of 1177 BCE, the year civilization ended.

And at that point, I was drawn immediately into this world we call the Bronze Age.

The professor subsequently followed it up with an understanding of why when globalized Mediterranean basin fell apart in 1177, what came afterwards,

what civilizations were able to revive themselves, who did not? In this volume, however,

we're going back before the fall of civilization to the period 15th through 12th BCE, when the Egyptians dominated one part of the conversation,

the Hittites dominated the other, in between the land of Canaan with their sub-kings,

always competing with each other and also offering their services or not to Egypt and the Hittites.

Now we go to the reason we know this is because of a decision made right away in Berlin by a German scholar named Hugo Winkler.

Professor, who was he and what did he do for the Amarna Letters? Thank you.

Oh, thank you. Vinkler was absolutely amazing. So let me put it into context, though. When the

Amarna Letters hit the Antiquities Market and the dealers and the museums began buying them up. They were spread around the world.

So if you want to go look at the Amarna letters today, you have to go to 14 different museums.

You have to go to eight different countries, 10 different cities, four different continents.

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