The Amarna Letters — Questions and answers

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Where are the Amarna Letters, which reveal intricate relationships among kings nearly 3,500 years ago, currently displayed?

Choices

  1. British Museum in London
  2. Louvre Museum in Paris
  3. Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin ✓
  4. Cairo Museum in Egypt

Answer: Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin

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Which museum's Room 57 contains a series of Amarna Letters exchanged between the pharaohs of Egypt and the monarchs of Babylon, Assyria, and Hatti?

Choices

  1. The British Museum ✓
  2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. The Pergamon Museum
  4. The Egyptian Museum

Answer: The British Museum

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Which museum houses a collection of Amarna Letters that contain entreaties from Canaanite vassals to the Egyptian pharaoh for military aid?

Choices

  1. The British Museum
  2. The Louvre Museum
  3. The Vorderasiatisches Museum
  4. The Cairo Museum ✓

Answer: The Cairo Museum

From page 3

What type of tablets, crafted by Egyptian scribes with repeated Akkadian characters as part of their training, are found in the archives of the Vorderasiatisches Museum alongside the Amarna Letters?

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  1. Scribal exercises ✓
  2. Trade agreements
  3. Religious texts
  4. Royal decrees

Answer: Scribal exercises

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In the halls of Akhetaten, from which king did Pharaoh Akhenaten receive a clay tablet etched with Akkadian script, speaking of demands, gifts owed, and alliances?

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  1. Burna-Buriash II of Babylon
  2. Suppiluliuma I of Hatti
  3. Tushratta of Mitanni ✓
  4. Rib-Hadda of Byblos

Answer: Tushratta of Mitanni

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Which pharaoh, known for his extensive building projects and diplomatic relations, composed a letter to King Burna-Buriash II of Babylon, as observed by a young prince?

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  1. Amenhotep III ✓
  2. Akhenaten
  3. Tutankhamun
  4. Ramesses II

Answer: Amenhotep III

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Which ruler of Byblos penned repeated pleas for assistance against encroaching enemies to the distant pharaoh of Egypt?

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  1. Labaya
  2. Shuwardata
  3. Abdi-Heba
  4. Rib-Hadda ✓

Answer: Rib-Hadda

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In what year did a local peasant woman discover a cache of clay tablets, later known as the Amarna Letters, in the ruins of ancient Amarna?

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  1. 1798
  2. 1887 ✓
  3. 1822
  4. 1922

Answer: 1887

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The Amarna Letters, which speak of diplomatic negotiations and desperate pleas, are displayed in which museum after their journey from discovery in the sands of Amarna?

Choices

  1. Vorderasiatisches Museum ✓
  2. Cairo Museum
  3. British Museum
  4. Louvre Museum

Answer: Vorderasiatisches Museum

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