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The Grammar Has Not Changed

The Amarna Letters are 3,400 years old. Eric H. Cline's Love, War, and Diplomacy shows why they read like diplomatic cables from last week. The grammar of international politics, the anxiety, the flattery, the fear of abandonment, has not changed.

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