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  Amarna travel guide - Wikitravel
Amarna (el-Amarna) is a significant archaeological location in Middle Egypt, in the modern Egyptian province of el-Minya.
Amarna is located between the east bank of the river Nile and the high plateau of the Eastern Desert, some 58 km (36 miles) south of Minya, 402 km (250 miles) north of Luxor and 312 km (194 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Amarna has, since 1982, been the target of nearly annual archaeological excavations by a team from the University of Cambridge, England, under the direction of Mr Barry Kemp.
wikitravel.org /en/Amarna   (657 words)

  
 Home - Amarna Project
The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c.
It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten).
As well as this historic interest Amarna remains the largest readily accessible living-site from ancient Egypt.
www.amarnaproject.com   (202 words)

  
 The Amarna Letters
The Amarna letters, a unique corpus of documents from the Egyptian New Kingdom, were discovered in the late 1880s by Egyptian peasants (Moran 1992: xiii).
As soon as their authenticity was confirmed and Egyptologists were able to evaluate their contents, it became clear that the stash of clay tablets represented one of the most important historical sources on the socio-political environment of the ancient Near East.
The Amarna letters represent the diplomatic correspondence between the pharaohs of the Amarna period and their contemporaries in Canaan, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Aegean.
www.courses.psu.edu /cams/cams400w_aek11/amarnal.html   (1123 words)

  
 The Ancient City of Akhetaten at el-Amarna
It is here in one such building, the 'records office', that the Amarna Letters were found by a peasant woman.
The most basic element of an Aten temple is the altar, to which a ramp or stairway ascends from the west in the middle of the court, surrounded by a temenos wall.
This is actually where the famous Amarna Letters were discovered by a peasant lady in 1888.
touregypt.net /featurestories/amarna.htm   (3402 words)

  
  MYTH*ING LINKS / AFRICA: Egypt: Amarna
Amarna, or more formally, Tell El-Amarna, is the Arab name for the virgin site in the desert north of Thebes where Pharaoh Akhenaton built his pristine royal city, Akhet-aton, "Horizon-of-Aton." It lasted only a few years before being destroyed by those loyal to the old gods of Egypt.
Her general Amarna links, also expanded (and including solid sites as well as more questionable ones, such as those with ties to Moses, Oedipus, the Brotherhood of Light, reincarnated royals living today, etc), are nicely annotated with an occasional flash of tongue-in-cheek wit.
He is the most famous person of the Amarna period, and yet he accomplished the least, which is why I have left him until last.
www.mythinglinks.org /afr~egy~amarna.html   (3235 words)

  
 EL-AMARNA and AKHETATEN
The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km (250 miles) north of Luxor.
The site of Amarna includes several modern villages, chief of which are el-Till in the north and el-Hagg Qandil in the south.
Other leading figures of the Amarna period, both royal and otherwise, are also shown with some of these features, suggesting a possible religious connotation, especially as some sources suggest that private representations of Akhenaten, as opposed to official art, show him as quite normal.
www.egyptologyonline.com /amarna.htm   (1249 words)

  
 The Amarna Tablets
These letters were sent to the Egyptian Pharaohs Amenophis III and his son Akhenaten around the middle of the 14th century B.C. The correspondents were kings of Babylonia, Assyria, Hatti and Mitanni, minor kings and rulers of the Near East at that time, and vassals of the Egyptian Empire.
The Amarna letters from Canaan have proved to be the most important source for the study of the Canaanite dialects in the pre-Israelite period.
A century after the discovery of the Amarna tablets and 80 years after their classical publication by Knudtzon, William L. Moran of Harvard University published new translations of the Amarna letters, first in French (Moran 1987), then in English (Moran 1992).
www.tau.ac.il /humanities/semitic/amarna.html   (2086 words)

  
 Amarna Trust
The Amarna Project has developed from a long-running archaeological excavation carried out under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Society, under permits from the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt.
Over the years the remit of the Project has extended to include repairs to ancient buildings, improvements to visitor access, and the many tasks needed to assist the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the creation of a site museum.
It is to help channel support to the Amarna Project that the Amarna Trust has been set up, a charity registered with the Charity Commission of the United Kingdom.
www.amarnatrust.com   (242 words)

  
 What is the Amarna Royal Tombs Project?
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project is engaged in one of the most exciting archaeological adventures of recent times.
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project is immensely privileged to carry out this work, which is undertaken with the permission and co-operation of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and its Permanent Secretary, Professor Gaballa A. Gaballa.
Note to visitors: this website, home of The Amarna Royal Tombs Project, is still under construction, with new features and information being constantly added.
www.valleyofthekings.org /vofk/content/archive/artp.htm   (268 words)

  
 The Ancient City of Akhetaten at el-Amarna
The most basic element of an Aten temple is the altar, to which a ramp or stairway ascends from the west in the middle of the court, surrounded by a temenos wall.
This is actually where the famous Amarna Letters were discovered by a peasant lady in 1888.
Afterwards, apparently the houses were re-inhabited by those who could not afford to travel back to Thebes after the end of the Amarna Period.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/amarna.htm   (3402 words)

  
 The Amarna Site
Virtually no phase in the history of our planet's civilisations has so many unanswered questions, and attracts so many theories, as the Egyptian 'Amarna Period' when the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten turned away from the traditional gods and embraced his one god, the Aten sun disk.
Akhenaten's successor, one of the Amarna Period's biggest mysteries.
A high official throughout the Amarna Period, and Tutankhamun's successor as Pharaoh.
www.akhet.co.uk /amarna/index2.htm   (239 words)

  
 Amarna Project home   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amarna is the site of the New Kingdom capital Akhetaten (occupied c.
It has been the subject of archaeological investigation since the late 19th century, with the current project beginning in 1977.
This website aims to provide up-to-date information on Amarna and progress of the project for all with an interest in the site.
www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /Projects/Amarna/home.htm   (163 words)

  
 Amarna Letters
Amarna tablets: Letters from foreign rulers to the pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten
Mineralogical and chemical studies of the Amarna tablets by Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel-Aviv University
The new datum of 1012 NC Discovery of the Amarna Tablets by E.A. Wallis Budge
www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/amarnaletters.htm   (959 words)

  
 The Amarna Research Foundation
The Amarna Research Foundation is dedicated exclusively to the advancement of interest and research in the Amarna Period.
Funds contributed through memberships and grants are used to promote archeological excavations, conservation, research and publication of this period of Egyptian history.
Significant work is currently being done in the excavation and preservation of Tel el-Amarna, and in the planning of an on-site visitors center.
www.museum-tours.com /amarna   (84 words)

  
 Megaera's Amarna Art Gallery
This drawing of three of Akhenaten's daughters loosely approximates the Amarna style of art.
This image of Akhenaten and Nefertiti dancing is a sketch for what ended up being a much simpler design for the lesson on symmetry in the basic design course I took several years ago.
Proceed to The Art of the Amarna Period.
www.heptune.com /artgal.html   (773 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Tell El-Amarna Tablets
The best work on the Tell el-Amarna tablets (transcription, German translation, glossary, and notes) is that of KNUDTZON, Die El Amarna Tafeln in Hinrich's Vorderasiatische Bibliothek, II (Leipzig, 1907-9).
The Berlin and Cairo tablets were edited by ABEL and WINCKLER, Die Thontafelfund von El Amarna (1889-90), and those in the British Museum by BEZOLD, The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets in the B. (London, 1892).
Assyurer (Leipzig, 1907); DHORME, Le Pays Bibliques au temps d'el Amarna in Revue Biblique (1908-9).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14477d.htm   (293 words)

  
 The Amarna Ring: a Webring Devoted to Akhenaten and his Family
The Amarna Ring: a Webring Devoted to Akhenaten and his Family
This ring is dedicated to the Pharaoh Akhenaten and the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
I will then inform you by e-mail whether or not your site was accepted into the ring.
www.heptune.com /amarna.html   (283 words)

  
 Amarna
1798-1799: the Napoleonic expedition visited the site of Amarna; they produce a map of the city.
1887: a woman discovered nearly four hundred clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform script - the Amarna Letters, international diplomatic correspondence from the time of Akhenaten
1903-1908: Norman de Garis Davies published the private tombs of Amarna in six volumes (Davies 1903; Davies 1905a; Davies 1905b; Davies 1906; Davies 1908a; Davies 1908b)
www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /amarna/index.html   (257 words)

  
 The Amarna Royal Family
Biographies of the Amarna Royalty by Megaera Lorenz
I have received many helpful suggestions from the visitors who have signed my Amarna survey, one of the most common being that I should say more about the people of the Amarna period.
Therefore, I will here attempt to provide a rough sketch of the lives of some of these fascinating people.
www.heptune.com /akhbio.html   (202 words)

  
 Amarna Color Portfolio
Sorry but I am no longer doing any painting, this is just an archive of pieces I have done:
Sommer Prosser "Ursus Major" resin repainted dappled grey by Amarna
NAN Reserve Champion Artists Resin UK Draft, 2002
www.psychotica.net /evb/amarna/portfolio.html   (48 words)

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