The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti : Amarna and its people / Barry Kemp
The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years br...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : Thames & Hudson, 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | First paperback edition |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New aspects of antiquity
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| Classification: | 15.16 - Altorientalische Archäologie. christliche Archäologie 15.26 - Alter Orient. Nordafrika |
| Physical Description: | 320 S.; Ill.; 25 cm |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index |
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Table of Contents:
- The cast of charactersIntroduction : the city of the horizon
- Building a vision
- Akhenaten's resources
- The city of the sun-god
- The apartments of the Pharaoh
- City of people
- The quality of life
- Spiritual life at Amarna
- What kind of city?
- An end and a beginning.