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el-Amarna

Alternative site names: 
Amarna; Tel el-Amarna; Tel-El Amarna; Tell Amarna; Tell el-Amarna; Tell el Amarna; el-Till el-Amarna; el Till el Amarna; el Amarna
Arabic site names: 
العمارنة
Type of site: 
Temples; city; palace; royal tombs; tombs; village; quarry
Timeframe: 
Temples (18th Dynasty); city (18th Dynasty); palace (18th Dynasty); royal tombs (18th Dynasty); tombs (18th Dynasty, Ptolemaic Period); village (18th Dynasty); quarry (Old Kingdom-Roman Period)
Overlay map: 
Original excavator's map of el-Amarna superimposed on a modern Google map image. Created by Bryony Smerdon, 2016.
Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of antiquities from Tel el Amarna, Upper Egypt : excavated by W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1892 ; exhibited at 4, Oxford Mansions, Oxford Circus, W., 19 Sept. to 15 Oct. 1892. London.

Catalogue of exhibition of antiquities from Tell el-Amarna, 1920-21: exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, July 4th to July 13th, 1921 / Egypt Exploration Society. 1921. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of exhibition of antiquities from Tell el-Amarna, 1921-22: exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, July 3rd to July 12th, 1922 / Egypt Exploration Society. 1922. London : Egypt Exploration Society.

Exhibition of antiquities from Abydos and Tell el-Amarna, 1925-1926: exhibited at the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, July 5th to July 24th, 1926 / Egypt Exploration Society. 1926. London : Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of the Egypt Exploration Society's exhibition of the results of the recent excavations at Amarna and Armant and of a loan exhibition of Egyptian jewellery: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 8th September to 3rd October 1931. 1931. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of the Egypt Exploration Society's exhibition of the results of the recent work at Abydos, Amarna & Armant: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 17th June to 27th July, 1932. 1932. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of exhibition of recent work of the Egypt Exploration Society: September 17 - October 13, 1934 (Tell el Amarna). 1934. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of exhibition of recent work of the Egypt Exploration Society: with a collection of cat figures lent by Mr & Mrs Neville Langton ; at 2, Hinde Street, Manchester Sq., September 14 - October 3, 1936. 1936. London : Egypt Exploration Society.

Catalogue of exhibition of recent work of the Egypt Exploration Society: at 2, Hinde Street, Manchester Sq., July 5-24, 1937. 1937. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Davies, N. de Garis 1903-1908. The rock tombs of el Amarna, 6 vols. Archaeological survey of Egypt 13-18. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.

Fairman, H. W. 1935. Topographical notes on the central city, Tell el-'Amarnah. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 21 (2), 136-139.

Frankfort, H. (ed.) 1929. The mural painting of el-'Amarneh. Francis Giesler Newton memorial volume. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Frankfort, H. and J. D. S. Pendlebury (eds) 1933.  The city of Akhenaten. Part II: the north suburb and the desert altars. The excavations at Tell el Amarna during the seasons 1926-1932. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Kemp, Barry 2013. The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its people. London: Thames & Hudson.

Newberry, Percy E. 1893. The archaeological survey of Egypt: Mr. Newberry's work, 1892-93. Archaeological Report 1892-1893, 9-15.

Peet, T. Eric and C. Leonard Woolley 1923. The city of Akhenaten. Part I: excavations of 1921 and 1922 at el-'Amarneh. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society 38. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Pendlebury, John Devitt Stringfellow 1935.  Tell el-Amarna. London: Dickson & Thompson.

Pendlebury, J. D. S. 1951. The city of Akhenaten. Part III: the central city and the official quarters. The excavations at Tell el-Amarna during the season 1926-1927 and 1931-1936, 2 vols. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society 44. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1894. Tell el Amarna. London: Methuen & Co.

Stevens, Anna 2012. Akhenaten's workers: the Amarna Stone Village Survey, 2005-2009. Volume I: The survey, excavations and architecture. Egypt Exploration Society, Excavation Memoir 100. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

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Royal Estate.jpg [10]

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Tell El Amarna Map.jpg [12]

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