\Tel`-el-A*mar"na\, n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.]
A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis,
forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose
archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of
tablets (called the
{Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, {tablets}) was found here,
   forming the Asiatic correspondence (
{Tel-el-Amarna letters}) of Amenophis IV. and his father,
   Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an
   important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400
   to 1370 b. c..