Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Amarna Aten Temple Columns 5959EG07JHP
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
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
| Filename: | Amarna Aten Temple Columns 5959EG07JHP |
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| Upload Date: | 2007-10-22 11:08:30 | |||
| Photo Size: | 9.4mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Ancient Egyptian Amarna Small Aten Temple Columns Lotus Reconstruction Excavationseveral temples in this 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, columns, reconstructed, temple, sand, desert |