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Amarna (/ ə ˈ m ɑːr n ə /; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.
Small unfinished tombs located near Tomb 7. Amarna Tomb 8: Tutu [4] Chamberlain of the Lord of the Two Lands, etc. Amarna Tomb 9: Mahu [1] Chief of the Medjay (police) of Akhetaten: Amarna Tomb 9a,b,c: Unknown [1] Small unfinished tombs located near Tomb 9. Amarna Tomb 10: Ipy [1] King's scribe, the overseer of the large inner palace of the ...
Map of the ancient Near East during the Amarna period, showing the great powers of the period: Egypt (green), Hatti (yellow), the Kassite kingdom of Babylon (purple), Assyria (grey), and Mittani (red). Lighter areas show direct control, darker areas represent spheres of influence. The extent of the Achaean/Mycenaean civilization is shown in orange.
Map of the Royal Wadi, Amarna. The Royal Wadi (known locally as Wadi Abu Hassah el-Bahari) is a necropolis in Amarna, Egypt. It is the burial place of the Ancient Egyptian royal family of Amarna, which reigned during the 18th Dynasty. The cemetery is a local parallel to the Valley of the Kings.
It includes countries, regions, and the cities or city-states. The regions are included in Canaan and the Levant. The Amarna letters text corpus contains 382 numbered letters; there are "sub-Text corpora" in the letters, most notably the 68-letter corpus of Rib-Hadda of Gubla–. EA is for 'el Amarna'.
The Workmen's Village, located in the desert 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east of the ancient city of Akhetaten (modern Amarna), was built during the reign of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten. It housed the workers who constructed and decorated the tombs of the city's elite , making it comparable to the better studied Theban workers village ...
Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978 977 416 982 3. Van Dijk, Jacobus (2009). "The Death of Meketaten" (PDF). In Brand, Peter J.; Cooper, Louise (eds.). Causing His Name To Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane.
Amarna Tomb 3 is a rock-cut cliff tomb located in Amarna, Upper Egypt. The tomb belonged to the Ancient Egyptian noble Ahmes (Ahmose), who served during the reign of Akhenaten . [ 1 ] The tomb is situated at the base of a steep cliff and mountain track at the north-eastern end of the Amarna plains. [ 2 ]