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/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Abo-Eleaz_Fig3.jpg12001047Diplomatic messengers in the Late Bronze Age had to endure numerous difficulties to accomplish their missions. But from the surviving correspondence, it seems that Egypt may have been the most hazardous posting of all.