Foreign leaders liked Amenhotep (like, genuinely, not diplomatically) so much. Amenhotep and various foreign leaders called each other “my brother, my friend”
Tushratta, an Akkadian leader who became his father-in-law was especially fond of him so you see stuff like
To Nimmureya*, my brother, my son-in-law, whom I love and who loves me from Tushratta the king of Mitanni, your father-in-law, your brother, who loves you...as now I love my brother, and as now my brother loves me... all the things my brother wishes in his heart [the gods] will make true... I will have with my brother a relationship full of love... we are both of one mind and love one-another - letter from Tushratta about marriage and friendship (it’s a really long letter. he says “i love you, man” a LOT)
When Amenhotep died, Tushratta was so grief-stricken that he apparently refused food and water and pleaded with the gods to die in his place.
When I heard that my brother Nimmureya had gone to his fate, on that day I sat down and wept. On that day I took no food, I took no water. I grieved, saying “let me be dead, or let 10,000 from my country be dead, but let my brother Nimmureya be alive and well for as long as the earth ” - Letter from Tushratta to Queen Tiye
(We have a lot of letters between Egypt and her neighbours from the reigns of Amnehotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamum in a fair-massive corpus known as The Amarna Letters. Amenhotep is called brother a lot. By, like, everyone)
*Amenhotep’s throne-name was Nebmaatre. Nimmureya is the Akkadian rendering of it.
