General term used to apply to the reign of Akhenaten and surrounding years, as well as to the site of the city of Akhetaten, properly called in modern times Tell el-Amarna. Local info: Introduction. Links: General.
Modern name for the site where Akhenaten founded his new capital and residence city called Akhetaten (the horizon of the Aten). The village is about 190 miles south of Cairo.
Modern name for the city founded by Akhetaten, "Horizon of the Aten," the city that Akhetaten built in Central Egypt after his break with the gods of Thebes. Now called Tel el Amarna.
the capital of ancient Egypt under Akhenaton, it gives its name to the period of culture at the time of this pharaoh
The name given to the historical time period under the rule of Amenophis IV / Akhenaten. During this time period there were unprecedented changes in the government, art and religion.
The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amÄrnä) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km (250 miles) north of Luxor. The site of Amarna includes several modern villages, chief of which are el-Till in the north and el-Hagg Qandil in the south.
