Midday open thread on a quiet Sunday.
Here's some reading material for all of you: Summaries of the Amarna letters, providing a fascinating glimpse at international diplomacy over 3000 years ago. For those of you who are unaware, these letters are the correspondence between the Pharaoh Ankhenaten (with some letters to Amenophis III, Tutankhamen, and possibly Ay) and the rulers of Babylon, Assyria, Hatti-land, Syria, etc. Interesting stuff.