Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Amarna Temple of Aten 5904EG07JHP
Photographs in this gallery cover the main sites of Amarna, its North Palace, Aten and Small Temple, Bani Hasan Rock cut chapels, Tuna el-Gebel with the Catacombs with baboon and ibis mummies, Stela of Akhenaten on the north boundary, Petosiris Tomb-Chapel, Chapels of Ptoemais and Isadora, Roman Water Wheel Well and Temple of Thoth and el Ashmunein with an Open Air Museum with huge granite statues of Baboons and nearby a Temple to Thoth with a later Christian Basilica all located along the River Nile between Cairo and Luxor accessed from the nearby university city of Minya
© Jim Henderson
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Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
Filename: | Amarna Temple of Aten 5904EG07JHP |
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Upload Date: | 2007-10-22 10:40:43 | |||
Photo Size: | 11mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Amarna Great Temple Aten Pharaoh Akhenaten Barren Egyptian Desert Buriedin praise of his worship to the Sun God and after extensive dismantling after his fall from power the desert has claimed much more and this area is not accessible to the public. |
Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, River, Nile, al-Amarnah, Amarna, city, Akhetaten, Pharaoh, Akhenaten, Amenhotep, Nefertiti, Aten, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, Great, Temple, mudbrick, sand, desert, covered, 11, years, occupied, |