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The story follows the timeline from her time in Thebes to Amarna and after Akhenaten's death. Nefertiti was the Chief wife in Akhenaten's court or haram. Though she is well known by name, as many historical female role models, her story is often overlooked for masculine rulers.
The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen shifted from ...
Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, during the New Kingdom. Whereas ancient Egyptian art was famously slow to change, the Amarna style was a significant and sudden break from its predecessors both in the style of ...
Amarna letter EA 153 from Abimilku.. These letters, comprising cuneiform tablets written primarily in Akkadian – the regional language of diplomacy for this period – were first discovered around 1887 by local Egyptians who secretly dug most of them from the ruined city of Amarna, and sold them in the antiquities market. [8]
Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, [1] the Amarna religion, [2] the Amarna revolution, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten , a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty . [ 3 ]
Plan of the tomb of Meryra II. The tomb of Meryra II is the royal sepulcher known as Amarna Tomb 2. The tomb dates back to the 18th Dynasty. [3] It is located in the northern side of the wadi that splits the cluster of tombs known collectively as the Northern tombs, near to the city of Amarna, Egypt. [4]
Amarna Sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Kemp, Barry (2012). The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its people. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500051733. Murnane, W.J.; van Siclen III, C.C. (1993). The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten. London and New York: Kegan Paul International.
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) is an archaeological expedition devoted to the Amarna Period.It was established in 1998 to ascertain on the ground and in the ancient records the fate of the missing Amarna royal dead, which were transferred to the Valley of the Kings upon the abandonment of Amarna during the 18th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.