Amarna
Sign in to saveAmarna (; ) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the ruins of Akhetaten, the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and abandoned shortly after his death in 1332 BC.
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Amarna is an ancient Egyptian archaeological site in Egypt that contains the ruins of Akhetaten, a capital city built by Pharaoh Akhenaten around 1346 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was abandoned shortly after Akhenaten's death in 1332 BC, and its remains are valuable to archaeologists because they preserve evidence of a unique period in Egyptian history.
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- Ancient site.name
- Amarna
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- El-Amarna, Tell el-Amarna
- Ancient site.image
- Small aten temple.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The Small Aten Temple at Akhetaten
- Ancient site.map_type
- Egypt
- Ancient site.location
- Minya Governorate, Egypt
- Ancient site.region
- Upper Egypt
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.builder
- Akhenaten
- Ancient site.built
- Approximately 1346 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, New Kingdom
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1891-1892, 1907-1914, 1923-1925, 1930-1932, 1977-1982, 1996-present
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- Name
- City of Akhetaten
- Site and plan
- North City
- Central City
- Southern suburbs
- City outskirts
- Life in ancient Amarna/Akhetaten
- Religious life
- The Amarna letters
- Amarna art-style
- Archaeology
- Modern excavations
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- Gallery
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Amarna (; ) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the ruins of Akhetaten, the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and abandoned shortly after his death in 1332 BC.
The site is on the east bank of the Nile River, in what today is the Egyptian province of Minya. It is about south of the city of al-Minya, south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and north of Luxor (site of the previous capital, Thebes). The city of Deir Mawas lies directly to its west. On the east side of Amarna there are several modern villages, the chief of which are l-Till in the north and el-Hagg Qandil in the south.
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