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1340s BC

decade from 1349-1340 BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ1998161 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1340s BC is a decade that lasted from 1349 BC to 1340 BC.

Events and trends

c. 1348 BC—Pharaoh Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten.

1348 BC–1336 BC: Akhenaten and his family, relief from Akhetaten (modern el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum.

c. 1348 BC–1336 BC: Nefertiti, bust from Akhetaten (modern Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum.

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1340s BC” is decade from 1349-1340 BC. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through 1340s, decade and 1349-1340, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1349, 1340, 1348, 1336—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, 1340s, decade and 1349-1340 is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “decade from 1349-1340 BC” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1998161. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1349, 1340, 1348 and 1336.

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This entry incorporates text from “1340s BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.