Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Amarna Temple Reconstruction 5971EG07JHP
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 Temple Reconstruction 5971EG07JHP |
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Upload Date: | 2007-10-22 11:10:47 | |||
Photo Size: | 7.2mb 4256x2848 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Small Aten Temple Ancient Egyptian Excavated Site City Amarna HereticKing one with recent reconstruction of several temples in the huge sprawling complex that was once the short-lived capital built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten along with mudbrick remains of the temple walls and pylons of which little is left after systematic dismantling after the kings death. |
Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, River, Nile, al-Amarnah, Amarna, city, Akhetaten, Akhenaten, Aten, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, small, column, reconstruction, temple, sand, desert |