Where is Amarna today?

The site is on the east bank of the Nile River, in what today is the Egyptian province of Minya. It is about 58 km (36 mi) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 mi) south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and 402 km (250 mi) north of Luxor (site of the previous capital, Thebes).

Can you visit Amarna?

The site is open to visitors every day from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Tickets for the main monuments must be purchased from the Ticket Office situated on the road to the North Tombs. Amarna has modest tourist infrastructure.

Was Amarna abandoned?

It rose and fell with Akhenaten and his religious reformation, under which Egypt’s ancient pantheon of gods was briefly usurped by the worship of a single solar deity; the Aten. On an uninhabited stretch of the Nile’s east bank, Amarna was founded, constructed and abandoned in under fifteen years.

Is Amarna Egypt?

Amarna (Tell el-Amarna) can be found on the east bank of the river Nile about half way between Egypt’s capital city of Cairo in the north and Luxor in the south.

Is Amarna in Upper Egypt?

Read a brief summary of this topic. Tell el-Amarna, also spelled Tall al-Amarna or Tall al-ʿAmārinah, site of the ruins and tombs of the city of Akhetaton (“Horizon of the Aton”) in Upper Egypt, 44 miles (71 km) north of modern Asyūṭ.

When was Amarna abandoned?

1347 and 1332 BCE
Tell el-Amarna (often abbreviated to Amarna) is a modern name that applies to an extensive archaeological site that is primarily the remains of an ephemeral capital city built and abandoned within about fifteen years during the late Eighteenth Dynasty (in the New Kingdom), between about 1347 and 1332 BCE.

Why is Amarna important?

The Amarna Letters have provided scholars with invaluable information on life in Egypt at this time as well as the relationship between Egypt and other nations. These tablets also make clear how little Akhenaten himself cared for the responsibilities of rule once he was ensconced in his new city.