An offbeat destination that most tourists don’t know: in Akhenaten we’ ll meet a rebellious Pharaoh, his wife Nefertiti and son Tutankhamon; tombs carved in a mountain and ancient temples to adore the sun: welcome to EL AMARNA, Egypt
0:00 Intro
2:00 Tombs
12:20 Royal Tombs
19:00 Temples
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Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة‎, romanized: al-ʿamārnah) is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established (1346 BC) 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 58 km (36 mi) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 mi) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km (250 mi) 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 region flourished from the Amarna Period up to the later Roman era.
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