The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti : Amarna and its people /

The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti : Amarna and its people /

The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years br...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kemp, Barry J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cairo : The American University in Cairo, 2012.
Series:New aspects of antiquity.
Subjects:
Akhenaton, > King of Egypt.
Nefertiti, > Queen of Egypt, > active 14th century B.C.
Pharaohs > Biography.
Tell el-Amarna (Egypt) > History.
Egypt > History > Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Cast of characters
  • City of the horizon
  • Building a vision
  • Akhenaten's resources
  • The city of the Sun-God
  • The apartments of the Pharaoh
  • City of people
  • The quality of life
  • Spiritual life at Amarna
  • What kinds of city?
  • An end and a beginning.

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