Amarna (Tell el-Amarna) can be found on the east bank of the river Nile about half way between Egypt's capital city of Cairo in the north and Luxor in the south ...

Amarna style, revolutionary style of Egyptian art created by Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaton during his reign (1353–36 bce) in the 18th dynasty.

The Amarna Letters are a group of several hundred clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) writing that date to the fourteenth century B.C. ...

The ancient Egyptian city of Amarna continues to transform our understanding of how human society has developed. Not only was it home to the heretic king ...

of or belonging to the period of time about 1375–1360 b.c. that is described on the ancient Egyptian Tell el ʽAmarna tablets discovered 1887 and written in ...

The Amarna Era includes the reigns of Akhenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Ay. The period is named after the capital city established by Akhenaten, ...

Around 1887 the Amarna Letters were discovered by villagers in the Central City. Written on clay tablets in Akkadian Cuneiform, the letters revealed remarkable ...

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 ...

Feb 17, 2011 · Akhenaten came to the throne of Egypt around 1353 BC. The reign of his father, Amenhotep III, had been long and prosperous with international ...

Tell el-Amarna, Ancient city, Egypt. Located midway between Thebes and Memphis on the Nile River, it was built in the 14th century bc by the Egyptian king ...