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eventually #Suppiluliuma was convinced by the #Dakhamunzu (how the Hittites called the Egyptian queen) or at least he was interested enough to unite the two empires. so he sent his son #Zannanza - who promptly died under mysterious circumstances on the Egyptian border. #Suppiluliuma was furious […]

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after visiting the Egyptian exhibit I was reading a lot about #Tutankhaton (I still refuse the -amun postfix) and that's how I learned about the #Dakhamunzu affair...now that sort of stuff is just catnip to me: after the death of the pharao his widow wrote to the enemy Hittite king #Suppiluliuma […]