Burra Buriya II

For those of you not in the know, the Amarna letters are a series of fourteenth century before Christ cuneiform clay tablets, mostly in the Akkadian lingua franca of the day.  There are letters between kings and letters between the Egyptian king and some of his lesser vassals.  

It was the letters between one particular Babylonian king of the Kassite dynasty – known as Burra Buriya the Second – and the Egyptian king of the eighteenth dynasty – known as Naphurureya or Amenhotep the Fourth or Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amana-Hapta – that particulary tickled my funny bone. 

First Post: An Explanation

For years, friends and acquaintances have been telling me to start a blog.  I'm still unsure whether this was just a thing that people say to each other -- like, you know, maybe they say this, instead of saying 'You're interesting.'  Or maybe it's just that I think I'm interesting, and that comes across obviously, and people who are thinking I'm uninteresting are trying to hide their true thoughts and so say something that insinuates the opposite: 'Have you ever thought of writing a blog?'

Whatever.  No, I had never thought of writing a blog till people starting asking me this question.  But I've been thinking of it ever since, thank you people.  I never decided whether I wanted to.  But here goes anyway.