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Akhenaten's Amarna

The short-lived capital, from the EES grid to museum collections · 8,766 objects.

Pharaoh Akhenaten built a new capital at Amarna in c. 1346 BCE, abandoned it after his death, and the site was buried for three millennia. The Egypt Exploration Society recorded every find on the Petrie grid; those excavation records have no photographs here. Museum collections (the Met, Brooklyn, the British Museum) hold the painted fragments, talatat, and household objects from the same city — they are the pictures for this theme.

Photographs are museum objects found at Amarna. Titles such as ?arrow head are the EES excavators' own identifications; a leading question mark is their mark of uncertainty.

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