Amarna Tales (Part 1). East of Akhet-Aten (Amarna), a walled-village hides among the hills. This "East Village" is a well-ordered, secluded community. It seems to be the new home of pharaoh's tomb builders. Originally, they lived at Deir el-Medina in west Luxor. But when Akhenaten founded his new royal city, the tomb-builders left their homes and came here. Today, archaeologists have uncovered a vast amount of material. Homes, animal pens, chapels, and countless artefacts shed light on daily life and family organisation in ancient Egypt. From homes to chapels, guard-houses to water depots, the East Village offers fantastic insights. It even includes traces of Tutankhamun, before he abandoned Amarna...
Episode details:
- Date: c.1355 - 1340 BCE.
- Location: Akhet-Aten (el-Amarna).
- Kings: Akhenaten, Neferneferuaten, Tutankhaten/Tutankhamun.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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- Logo image: A battle standard or soldier's emblem, with a sigil of Wepwawet (Kemp 2012).
- Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net.
- Music by Bettina Joy de Guzman www.bettinajoydeguzman.com.
- Music interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos.
Select Bibliography:
- Read reports on the East Village and other aspects of Amarna's archaeology free, at The Amarna Project.
- M. Bierbrier, The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs (1982).
- A. H. Bomann, The Private Chapel in Ancient Egypt: A Study of the Chapels in the Workmen’s Village at El Amarna with Special Reference to Deir el Medina and Other Sites (1991).
- B. G. Davies, Life Within the Five Walls: A Handbook to Deir el-Medina (2018).
- B. Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People (2012).
- B. J. Kemp, Amarna Reports I (1984). Free at The Amarna Project.
- B. J. Kemp, ‘The Amarna Workmen’s Village in Retrospect’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 73 (1987), 21–50.
- T. E. Peet and C. L. Woolley, The City of Akhenaten, Volume I (1923). Available free at Archive.org.
- A. Stevens, Private Religion at Amarna. The Material Evidence (2006).
- A. Stevens, ‘Private Religion in the Amarna Suburbs’, in F. Kampp-Seyfried (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery (2012), 95—97.
- A. Stevens, ‘Visibility, Private Religion and the Urban Landscape of Amarna’, in M. Dalton et al. (eds.), Seen & Unseen Spaces (2015), 77—84.
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