Amarna

settlement · 1548 BC – 2100 AD

A new capital for Egypt founded by Akhenaten during his reign as pharaoh during Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty.

Coordinates

27.64410, 30.89818

Also known as

Al-‘Amārnah (ar), el-Amarna, Amarna, Tell el-Amarna (ar), العمارنة (ar)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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