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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 employed by the ancient Egyptians is written as Akhetaten (or Akhetaton—transliterations vary) in English transliteration. Akhetaten means " Horizon of the Aten".
The area is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some south of the city of al-Minya, south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and north of Luxor. The city of Deir Mawas lies directly west across from the site of Amarna. Amarna, on the east side, includes several modern villages, chief of which are el-Till in the north and el-Hagg Qandil in the south.
The area was also occupied during later Roman and early Christian times; excavations to the south of the city have found several structures from this period.
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.