Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Amarna Central City 5944EG07JHP
Photographs in this gallery cover the main sites of Amarna, its North Palace, Aten and Small Temple, Bani Hasan Rock cut chapels, Tuna el-Gebel with the Catacombs with baboon and ibis mummies, Stela of Akhenaten on the north boundary, Petosiris Tomb-Chapel, Chapels of Ptoemais and Isadora, Roman Water Wheel Well and Temple of Thoth and el Ashmunein with an Open Air Museum with huge granite statues of Baboons and nearby a Temple to Thoth with a later Christian Basilica all located along the River Nile between Cairo and Luxor accessed from the nearby university city of Minya
© Jim Henderson
Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
Filename: | Amarna Central City 5944EG07JHP |
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Upload Date: | 2007-10-22 11:03:38 | |||
Photo Size: | 10mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Amarna Central City Built Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten Buried Desertin praise of his worship to the Sun God here looking across to the distant desert near the Small Aten temple and after extensive dismantling after his fall from power the desert has claimed much more and this area is not accessible to the public. |
Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, River, Nile, al-Amarnah, Amarna, city, Akhetaten, Pharaoh, Akhenaten, Amenhotep, Nefertiti, Aten, central, city, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, residential, houses, mudbrick, sand, desert, covered |