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Historic Nile excavation site
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amarna
Alternative clues for the word amarna
- Tet-el-___, Ikhnaton's capital
- Modern site of an ancient Egyptian capital
- Excavation site of Ikhnaton's capital
- Ancient cuneiform discovery site
- Site where cuneiform tablets were discovered
- Archaeological site along the Nile
- Where cuneiform was discovered
- Egypt's Tell el-___
- _____ tablets (Egyptian cuneiform treasures)
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Amarna is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty , and abandoned shortly after his death (1332 BC). The name for the city ...
Usage examples of amarna.
The Amarna tablets, the papyrus of Ani, and the great Greek manuscript of the Odes of Bacchylides are among the valuables smuggled out of Egypt by this so-called scholar.
Since the section of the east-coast highway north of Amarna wasn't finished, we had to take the car ferry across to the west bank.
The famous and exquisite bust of Nefertiti had gone on display in the Berlin museum some years after a German expedition had excavated at Tell el Amarna.