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	Amarna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is the name given to an extensive archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c.
		The frequent designation "Tell el-Amarna" for the city is inaccurate: nowhere do the ancient remains constitute a mound of eroded architecture that would warrant the description of a "tell" (Arabic: "city mound"), so common elsewhere in the region.
		Amarna art is unique among the Egyptian world for its realistic depiction of its subjects, instead of the strict idealistic formalism universal in Egyptian art up until that point, as well as for depicting many informal scenes such as the royal family playing with their children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amarna (1091 words)

	TELL EL-AMARNA
		The quality of all of these works is superb, but the unrivalled centrepiece of the collection is one of ancient Egypt's most famous icons: the unfinished limestone painted bust of Nefertiti wearing her characteristic flat-topped crown.
		The famous bust of Nefertiti also depicts her with an elongated neck, although she is not subjected to quite the same extremes as others in Amarna art.
		An unusually prominent figure in official art, she dominates scenes carved on the blocks of the temple to the Aten at Karnak.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /amarna.htm (640 words)

	TELL EL AMARNA - LoveToKnow Article on TELL EL AMARNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the Rolls House were discovered in 1887 by the fellahin some 300 clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform characters.
		The tombs and the great stelae sculptured on the cliffs which mark the bounds of the city of Akhet-Aton have been the object of special study by N. de G. Davies on behalf of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt.
		The results, with numerous plates and plans, are embodied in a series of memoirs, Rock Tombs of El Amarna (six parts, 19038).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TELL_EL_AMARNA.htm (512 words)

	Tell El-amarna; Tablets (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		In 1887 a peasant woman, digging in the ruins of Tell el-Amarna for the dust of ancient buildings with which to fertilize her garden, found tablets, a portion of the royal archives.
		The identification of such a large number of places and the ability thus given to trace the course of historical movements in that remote age are a remarkable testimony to the historical value of ancient records of that part of the world, for accuracy concerning place is of first importance in historical records.
		Conder, The Tell Amarna Tablets; Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln, in Heinrich's Vorderasiatische Bibliothek, II; Petrie, Tell el Amarna Tablets; idem, Syria and Egypt from the Tell el Amarna Letters; idem, Hist of Egypt; Jeremias, The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/8649 (2844 words)

	Egypt Exploration Society - Fieldwork - Tell El-Amarna
		The archaeological site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt is the short-lived city created by king Akhenaten around 1350 BC and occupied for less than twenty years.
		It is important to realise that after the end of the Amarna Period the city seems to have been abandoned in an orderly way.
		One is a large model of the greater part of the city itself; another is a large replica wall of talatat-blocks carved with a scene of Akhenaten at the Window of Appearance; a third is a painted panel which reproduces and restores a well known mural from the North Palace, from the so-called ‘Green Room’.
	www.ees.ac.uk /fieldwork/amarna.htm (3113 words)

	BD Tell el-Amarna Letters
		B.C. A tell is an artificial mound accumulated through centuries of building, destruction, and rebuilding, in which layers of archaeological items are found.
		Amarna was a city up the Nile in Upper Egypt, where Pharaoh Akhenaton was headquartered.
		In particular they tell of the walled cities of Palestine and of certain invaders (not the Israelites) who were coming into the land.
	scriptures.lds.org /bdt/tlllmrnl (223 words)

	www.ancientneareast.net - Amarna Bibliography
		Pendlebury, J.D.S. Tell el-Amarna, Lovat Dickson and Thompson, 1935.
		"Stela in honour of Amenophis III and Taya, from Tell El-`Amarnah", JEA 12 (1926), pp.1-2.
		Wooley, C.L. "Excavations at Tell el-Amarna", JEA 8 (1922), pp.48-82.
	www.ancientneareast.net /amarna_bibliography.html (1643 words)

	BIBLE & SPADE: Ch VIII- The Hebrew Conquest
		In 1887 a countrywoman of Tell el Amarna on the Upper Nile found in a rubbish-heap the collection of inscribed clay tablets, which has made the name of her village famous.
		The Tell el Amarna tablets, in short, threw an entirely new light on one of the darkest, yet most important, periods of Palestinian history, and opened a new epoch in the study of Biblical and indeed of Egyptian archaeology, revolutionizing in many ways our notions of the ancient history of the Near East.
		In other words, the Tell el Amarna tablets are believed to paint from the Canaanite side the same picture which the historian of Joshua-Judges paints from the Hebrew side, thus not only fixing the date of the Conquest but greatly illuminating it in every way.
	www.katapi.org.uk /BAndS/ChVIII.htm (3150 words)

	Tell el-Amarna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The finest examples of this is found in the The National Museum in Cairo, in the Amarna Section.
		At Tell el-Amarna there is nothing of this, not even a small, local museum.
		The main attractions of Tell el-Amarna are the tombs in the hills north and south of the ancient city.
	i-cias.com /egypt/tell_el-amarna.htm (410 words)

	Tel El Amarna
		To understand the history of Amarna, it is necessary to learn about the man who built it.
		The name Amarna is also used to describe the period of time including Akhenaten and his kin, the most well known of which is Tutankhamun.
		Amarna remains a source of disagreement with many scholars.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/telelamarna.html (643 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)

	Egypt Exploration Society - The Society - The History of the Society - Tell el-Amarna
		The Society’s first expedition to Tell el-Amarna, in middle Egypt, was mounted between 1901 and 1907 when Norman de Garis Davies recorded the nobles’ tombs and the boundary stelae of Akhenaten for the Archaeological Survey.
		The excavation of the town was published in three detailed volumes but the Royal Tomb records languished in the Society’s archives until, supplemented by his own research, they were prepared for publication by Geoffrey Martin in the 1970s and 80s.
		The current Amarna expedition has also become a focus for research-based projects into aspects of ancient Egyptian life, such as brewing, baking and glass-making.
	www.ees.ac.uk /the-society/amarna.htm (288 words)

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		We may not be able to pinpoint exactly the chronology, but the description of the events in Canaan during the Amarna age fits the Biblical account of the conquest and settlement of Israel in the land.
		The "Habiru" of the Amarna tablets may not be identified solely as the Hebrews, but the encroachment of these dreaded foes mentioned in the Amarna tablets is in keeping with the situation which prevailed as Israel received her inheritance in the Promised Land.
		Certainly there is no glaring inconsistency between the details of the data on the tablets from Tell el Amarna and the full account of the situation which confronted the twelve tribes as they moved from Egypt to Canaan.
	www.dabar.org /WWWinter/Land-Book-Jul-87.htm (918 words)

	Grant R. Jeffrey Ministries
		Other correspondence in the series of Tell el Amarna Letters indicates that the territory ruled by the king of Jerusalem at that time (during the days of Joshua and Gideon) included land extending from Hebron in the south to the town of Bethel in the north.
		In conclusion, an analysis of the Tell el Amarna Letters clearly confirms that, in the 14th century b.c., the city of Jerusalem was a capital city ruling over a considerable amount of territory in Canaan under the oversight of the Egyptian pharaohs.
		In conclusion, the powerful historical evidence from these ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna documents provides one more strong link in the chain of evidence from sources outside the Bible that tends to confirm the historical accuracy of these biblical accounts.
	www.grantjeffrey.com /article/hisevid.htm (4529 words)

	Glossary / Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, known from reliefs at Karnak and from the Royal Tomb at Amarna.
		Thought to be a daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye, mentioned in the Royal Tomb at Amarna.
		Source of the term 'Amarna' as applied to Ancient Egyptian history, as in 'the Amarna period.' Local info: Akhetaten.
	www.katestange.com /egypt/gloss.htm (813 words)

	Canaan, Canaanites - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As in the Tell el-Amarna Letters, so in the Old Testament, Canaan is used in an extended sense to denote the whole of Palestine West of the Jordan (Genesis 12:5; 23:2,19; 28:1; 31:18; 35:6; 36:2; 37:1; 48:7; Exodus 15:15; Numbers 13:2; Joshua 14:1; 21:2; Psalms 135:11).
		The excavations at Lachish were followed by others at Tell es-Safi, the supposed site of Gath; at Tell Sandahanna, the ancient Marissa, a mile South of Bet Jibrin, where interesting relics of the Greek period were found, and at Jerusalem, where an attempt was made to trace the city walls.
		In the Tell el-Amarna Letters we have a picture of Canaan at the moment when the Asiatic empire of Egypt was breaking up through the religious and social troubles that marked the reign of Amon-hotep IV.
	beta.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1822 (2960 words)

	Archaeology > Egypt > Amaran
		In 1887, an Egyptian woman was digging in her village of Tell el Amarna when she found 300 baked clay tablets with writing on them.
		Over the last century archaeologists at Tell el Amarna have been uncovering the ruins of temples and palaces of Egypt's strangest pharaoh, Akhenaten.
		Uncovered at Tell el Amarna, the famous bust of Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten.
	www.cartereport.org /archaeology/egypt/amaran (474 words)

	Tell el-Amarna by Lucy Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Julia Samson, Amarna: the City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, (London: Department of Egyptology, University College 1972) This book is an illustrated catalog of artifacts from Tell el-Amarna in the Petrie Museum at University College in London.
		Ask an art historian about the significance of the finds at Amarna, and you might get an answer about the dramatic difference in the art, the natural and informal depictions of the royal family, and the beautiful sculptured head of Queen Nefertiti.
		But for those interested in Biblical studies, the significance of Amarna is in the contents of the baked clay tablets comprising the diplomatic correspondence.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/seminary/courses/bst550/reports/LPrice/amarna.html (1569 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)

	El Amarna Tablets
		In the year 1887 an Egyptian woman found, amid the ruins of an ancient city about half-way between Thebes and Memphis, a collection of some 350 clay tablets inscribed with strange markings [The tablets are now mainly divided between Berlin and the British Museum.].
		The city is now well known as Tell el-Amarna, the capital of the remarkable king Amenhotep IV, or Akhenaten, who made a vain attempt to revolutionise the religion of his country, and was the father-in-law of Tutankhamen, the discovery of whose tomb by Lord Carnarvon made such a sensation at the end of 1922.
		The tablets of Tell el-Amarna, however, raised an almost equal sensation among Oriental scholars; for here, in the middle of Egypt, were documents written not after the manner of the country, in the Egyptian language and upon papyrus, but engraved upon clay in the unmistakable cuneiform, or wedge-shaped script characteristic of Mesopotamia (see Plate II).
	www.katapi.org.uk /BibleMSS/ElAmarnaT.htm (336 words)

	Amarna, Tell el- -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Often referred to as the Amarna heresy, Akhenaton's alteration of the artistic and religious life of Egypt was drastic.
		The ruins on an enormous Roman amphitheater dominate the town of El Jem.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9006014?tocId=9006014 (961 words)

	Amarna Letters
		Amarna tablets: Letters from foreign rulers to the pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten
		In 1887 about 350 clay tablets were found at el Amarna, the site of Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten.
		The new datum of 1012 NC Discovery of the Amarna Tablets by E.A. Wallis Budge
	www.terraflex.co.il /ad/egypt/amarnaletters.htm (950 words)

	LACHISH - LoveToKnow Article on LACHISH
		It was destroyed by Joshua for joining the league against the Gibeonites (Joshua x 3 1-33) and assigned to the tribe of Judah (xv.
		The name is preserved in a small Roman site in the neighborhood, Umm Lakis, which probably represents a later dwelling-place of the descendants of the ancient inhabitants of the city.
		See W. Flinders Petrie, Tell el-Hesy, and F. Bliss, A Mound of many Cities, both published by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LACHISH.htm (196 words)

	Habiru by Lucy Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Towards the end of the nineteenth century, excavations at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt discovered the remains of the palace of Akhenaten, who became the Pharaoh of Egypt around 1350 BCE.
		Since the initial discovery of the references to the Habiru in the Amarna tablets, references to the Habiru have been found at numerous locations.
		The Amarna letters show Habiru in Canaan in the mid to later part of the fourteenth century.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/seminary/courses/bst550/reports/LPrice/Habiru.html (2479 words)

	Amarna Project home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Hittites Hamath Tell el-Amarna tablets
		Ironically, something in the planning or construction of the buildings housing the administrative records would both hide them from discovery while protecting them against the ravages of time.
		It would owe its legacy, not to the armies which symbolized it powers, but to the planners, builders, scribes, and workmen who compiled and stored its records.
		In 1887 a cache of clay tablets was found at Tell el-Amarna, the site of 14th century B.C. city of Akhetaten.
	www.periclespress.com /Hittites.html (2423 words)

	Return to Glory :: Picture Gallery 7
		Tell el-Amarna, site of the ancient Egyptian city Akhenaton, on the Nile River, north of the modern city of Asyût.
		Akhenaton was built during the reign of Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaton, sometime between 1350 and 1334 BC; the city served as the Egyptian capital until Akhenaton's death.
		The tablets formed part of the correspondence, later known as the Amarna letters, of Akhenaton and his predecessor, Amenhotep III, with the governors in Palestine and Syria and the kings of Babylonia, Assyria, and Mitanni.
	www.returntoglory.org /Gallery/RTGpix7.htm (272 words)

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