114: Akhenaten's New City (Amarna)

In regnal year 5, Akhenaten decreed the foundations of his new city devoted to the sun god. One year later, the King returned to perform ceremonies and to review what had been completed...

• Date: c.1357 BCE (regnal year 6)
• King: Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re)
• Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten)
• Cities: Amarna (Akhet-Aten)
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• Music by Keith Zizza (www.keithzizza.com).
• Music by Michael Levy (www.ancientlyre.com).

Select Bibliography:

• Betsy M. Bryan, “New Kingdom Sculpture,” in Allan B. Lloyd, A Companion to Ancient Egypt, 2 volumes, 2010.
• Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.
• Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.
• Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, 2005.
• William J. Murnane, Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
• T.E. Peet and C. Leonard Woolley, The City of Akhenaten Part I: Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at El-Amarneh, 1923.
• J.D.S Pendlebury, The City of Akhenaten Part III: The Central City and The Official Quarters, 2 volumes, 1951. Available at Archive.org: Volume I: Texts & Volume II: Plates
• Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, Tell el Amarna, 1894. Available at Archive.org.
• Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1984.
• Donald B. Redford, “Akhenaten: New Theories, Old Facts,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 369 (2013): 9-34.
• Patrick C. Salland, Palatial Paintings and Programs: The Symbolic World of the Egyptian Palace in the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1069 BCE), Unpublished PhD Dissertation, 2015.
• Fran Weatherhead, Wall-Paintings from the King’s House at Amarna, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 (1995): 95-113.

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