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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anna StevensPublisher: The American University in Cairo Press Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press Edition: Arabic Edition ISBN: 9789776790117ISBN 10: 9776790119 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 27 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: Arabic Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION Who Was Who? Akhenaten’s Predecessors Akhenaten and His Family Secondary Royal Figures Coregents and Successors CHRONOLOGY SETTING THE SCENE Amenhotep III and Akhenaten’s Early Years Rise of the Solar Cult Akhenaten as King: Change on the Horizon Denouncing the Gods Amarna: Building a Vision A City of People Akhetaten What Kind of City? The Aten Cult Supplying the City Securing Akhetaten An Emerging City Akhenaten’s Amarna Years A Collapsing Dynasty A City Abandoned Rediscovering Amarna Discovering City Life How Can We Recover the Past? Viewing Akhetaten from Afar VISITING AMARNA Getting There and Around Accommodation Ticket Office and Opening Hours Amarna Visitor Centre Food, Drinks, Toilets, and Shopping Accessibility Tips for Visiting NORTH CITY AND PALACES Abandoned Dig House North Riverside Palace North Palace EASTERN CLIFFS AND DESERT Desert Altars The North Tombs Boundary Stela U Royal Wadi and Tombs The Royal Tomb North Suburb CENTRAL CITY Great Aten Temple Royal Road Bridge to the King’s House Great Palace and Smenkhkare Hall Small Aten Temple Administrative Quarters SOUTHERN CITY AND TEMPLES An Ancient Villa Main City South Tombs Kom al-Nana FURTHER INFORMATION CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTSReviewsProviding a handy reference guide to the chronology, geography and main players in the story, this book will allow visitors to bring with them the definitive guide to the site. At once scholarly and also entirely accessible, it will instantly become indispensable for enthusiasts, students and scholars of the period and the place. I look forward to my copy becoming increasingly dog-eared with each visit I make to the site in future.--Chris Naunton, author of Egyptologists' Notebooks on the English language edition Author InformationAnna Stevens is a research archaeologist specializing in Egypt, and assistant director of the Amarna Project. She is affiliated with Monash University and the University of Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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