Amarna
Title | Amarna PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Stevens |
Publisher | American University in Cairo Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2021-03-09 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1649031971 |
An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Akhenaten turned his back on Amun, and most of the great gods of Egypt. Abandoning Thebes, he quickly built a grand new city in Middle Egypt, Akhetaten—Horizon of the Aten—devoted exclusively to the sun god Aten. Huge open-air temples served the cult of Aten, while palaces were decorated with painted pavements and inlaid wall reliefs. Akhenaten created a new royal burial ground deep in a desert valley, and his officials built elaborate tombs decorated with scenes of the king and his city. As thousands of people moved to Akhetaten, it became the most important city in Egypt. But it was not to last. Akhenaten’s death brought the abandonment of his city and an end to one of the most startling episodes in Egyptian history. Today, Akhetaten is known as Amarna, a sprawling archaeological site in the province of Minya, halfway between Cairo and Luxor. With its beautifully decorated tombs and vast mud-brick ruins, it is the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt. This informed and richly illustrated guidebook brings the ancient city of Akhetaten alive with a keen insider’s eye, drawing on ongoing archaeological research and the knowledge and insight of Amarna’s modern-day communities and caretakers to explain key monuments and events, while offering invaluable practical advice for visiting the site. With over 150 illustrations, maps, and plans, Amarna is both an ideal introduction for visitors to Amarna and a window onto the extraordinary reign of Akhenaten.
A Bibliography of the Amarna Period
Title | A Bibliography of the Amarna Period PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Thorndike Martin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Egypt |
ISBN | 0710304137 |
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Title | Akhenaten and Nefertiti PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Aldred |
Publisher | Penguin Putnam |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Akhenaten and Tutankhamun
Title | Akhenaten and Tutankhamun PDF eBook |
Author | David P. Silverman |
Publisher | UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2006-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781931707909 |
The Amarna Period, named after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, included the reigns of heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his presumed son, the boy king Tutankhamun.
Amarna
Title | Amarna PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Watterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
For many the word "Amarna" conjures up visions of the city in which Nefertiti, one of the most beautiful women of the ancient world, lived in connubial bliss with her husband, the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh King Akhenaten. Armana was also the city in which Tutankhamun, today the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt, spend the first part of his childhood. Although Armana has become a byword for religious and artistic innovation, it is often difficult to disentangle myth from fact, speculation from reality. In this well-illustrated study, Barbara Watterson, one of the most accomplished of modern Egyptologists, discusses and brings up to date the many theories that abound about the period.
The Royal Women of Amarna
Title | The Royal Women of Amarna PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothea Arnold |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Portrait sculpture, Ancient |
ISBN | 0870998161 |
The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art.
The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Title | The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti PDF eBook |
Author | Barry J. Kemp |
Publisher | New Aspects of Antiquity |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780500291207 |
“In the process of reconstituting a long-vanished city, the meticulously assembled book also brings to life the exotic, almost alien society once housed there.” —Publishers Weekly