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WHEN the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen was made the occasion of a newspaper ‘ stunt,’ some misgiving was felt whether such wide publicity was likely to be a real benefit to archaeology in the long run. In that particular instance it probably was not; but it had the advantage that it made the general public to a certain extent familiar with a very important period in Egyptian history. Indeed, as Mr. Stanley Cook says in his preface to Mr. Baikie's excellent account of the Amarna age, it was one of the great crises in the ancient world. Mr. Baikie's book has been written for those whose interest in this period has been aroused by the discovery of the tomb, and it is for such that he has been anxious, incidentally, to fit that discovery into its true perspective by placing it side by side with the less sensational but far more important discovery of the Tel-el-Amarna tablets to which we owe our detailed knowledge of the history of this period and from which he quotes freely.
The Amarna Age: a Study of the Criris of the Ancient World.
By the Rev.James Baikie. Pp. xix + 465 + 32 plates. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1926.) 12s. 6d. net.
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The Amarna Age: a Study of the Criris of the Ancient World . Nature 119, 851 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119851b0
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