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The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen was shifted to Akhetaten ('Horizon of the Aten') in what is now Amarna. It was marked by the reign of Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten (1353–1336 BC) in order to reflect the dramatic change of Egypt's polytheistic religion into one where the sun disc Aten was worshipped over all other gods. The Egyptian pantheon was restored under Akhenaten's successor, Tutankhamun.

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Amarna Period

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The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen...

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Amarna

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Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the...

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Amarna letters

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Amarna letters (/əˈmɑːrnə/; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna")...

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Akhenaten

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During the Amarna period, however, royal and religious texts and inscriptions, including the boundary stelae at Akhetaten or the Amarna letters, started...

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Amarna art

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Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth...

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Tutankhamun

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completed; Ay and Tutankhamun's constructions were usurped and earlier Amarna Period rulers were erased. In modern times, Tutankhamun is known for the 1922...

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Smenkhkare

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the Amarna Period of the 18th Dynasty. Smenkhkare was husband to Meritaten, the daughter of his likely co-regent, Akhenaten. Since the Amarna period was...

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Nefertiti

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If Nefertiti did rule as Pharaoh, her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes. In...

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Sources and parallels of the Exodus

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Manetho's story of Osarseph and the lepers: the first, as a memory of the Amarna period; the second, as a memory of the Hyksos; and the third, as an anti-Jewish...

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Neferneferuaten

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name used to refer to a female king who reigned toward the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her gender is confirmed by feminine traces...

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Amun

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plumes on his head, the ankh symbol, and the was sceptre. After the Amarna period, Amun was instead painted with blue skin. RÉS 367 David Warburton, Architecture...

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Aten

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are major identifying characteristics of a period within the 18th dynasty referred to as the Amarna Period (c. 1353–1336 B.C.E.). Atenism and the worship...

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Valley of the Kings

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(including KV43, KV46 and KV57). In 1907, they discovered the possible Amarna Period cache in KV55. After finding what they thought was all that remained...

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Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

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several other traditional deities. Later Egyptians considered this "Amarna Period" an unfortunate aberration. After his death, Akhenaten was succeeded...

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Atenism

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Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, the Amarna religion, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a...

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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

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between the Ahmosid and Thutmosid lineages needed resolving. In the Amarna Period the temple was incurred upon again when Akhenaten ordered the images...

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Meritaten

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typical of the Amarna Period, but on those depicting official ceremonies, as well. The two structures most associated with Meritaten at Amarna are the Northern...

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Tomb of Tutankhamun

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only limited evidence about the history of Tutankhamun's reign and the Amarna Period that preceded it, but it provided insight into the material culture...

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Canaan

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Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian...

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Amarna Era

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The Amarna Era includes the reigns of Akhenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Ay. The period is named after the capital city established by Akhenaten,...

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Stela of Akhenaten and his family

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typical of the Amarna period. Such stelae are typical of the Amarna period in Ancient Egypt and are found particularly in the graves at Amarna, which was...

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Joseph and His Brothers

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Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work.[citation needed] The tetralogy...

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Art of ancient Egypt

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and axiality, hierarchy of scale, and composite composition. The Pre-Amarna period, the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom, was marked...

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Horemheb

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preceding Amarna rulers began, which is why he is considered the ruler who restabilized his country after the troublesome and divisive Amarna Period. Horemheb...

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Meketaten

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sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two-thirds of the Amarna Period. Meketaten was born approximately in Year 4 of Akhenaten's reign to...

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Egyptian language

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 1350 – 700 BC), Amarna period to Third Intermediate Period, Demotic Egyptian (c. 700 BC – 400 AD), the vernacular of the Late Period, Ptolemaic and early...

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New Kingdom of Egypt

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century BC, Egyptian art flourished in a distinctive new style (see Amarna Period). By the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt's status had changed radically...

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Labaya

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Canaan during the Amarna Period (c. 1350 BC). He lived contemporaneously with Pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated...

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