Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Amarna Small AtenTemple 5909EG07JHP
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
Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
Filename: | Amarna Small AtenTemple 5909EG07JHP |
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Upload Date: | 2007-10-22 10:41:19 | |||
Photo Size: | 9.2mb 5510x3543 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Great Temple Aten Central City Ruins Buried Archaeology Amarna EgyptMinya of which little is left of this capital city built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten in praise of his worship to the Sun God here looking across to a partial column of the Small Aten Temple 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, central, city, Akhetaten, Akhenaten, Aten, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, small, column, reconstructed, temple, sand, desert |