Amarna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 17, 2021 11:44 AM
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History
A new capital for Egypt founded by Akhenaten during his reign as pharaoh during Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149576487
27.646149396, 30.8993230563
- Central Point:
- Center of Visible Remains of the Central City at Amarna (1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Amarna (unspecified date range)
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- العمارنة (el-Amarna: Arabic, modern)
- Amarna connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, urban area, sanctuary (religious center)
Pleiades
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Amarna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149576487> [accessed: 14 August 2022]
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