Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tel-el-Amarna \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..