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<< Other Photo Pages >> Al Amarna - Ancient Palace in Egypt in Lower Egypt (North)

Submitted by AlexHunger on Friday, 13 December 2019  Page Views: 8088

Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Al Amarna Alternative Name: El Amarna, Tel-el-Amarna, Tel el Amarna
Country: Egypt Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Palace
 Nearest Village: Malawi
Latitude: 27.669913N  Longitude: 30.904047E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Grenzstele Tell el-Amarna Tell el-Amarna (arabisch: Image copyright: Mutnedjmet, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Location of Akhenaten's Palace, Egypt. Not much remains other than an arch, some foundations and some unfinished, yet decorated tombs as the palace was built of mud bricks. Artifacts, in particular Nefertiti's bust, were taken to the Berlin Egyptology museum.

To access, you need to secure transport from Malawi and take the ferry to the east of the Nile.

Note: From our Music Inspired by Ancient Sites mega-thread: Live from the Met, New York, Philip Glass's Akhnaten been described as 'singing archaeology' - the libretto was stitched together from fragments of ancient text
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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Tell el-Amarna - North Palace Image copyright: Malcolm Bott (Malcolm Bott), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Tell el-Amarna - North Palace Tell el-Amarna - North Palace Image copyright: Malcolm Bott (Malcolm Bott), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Tell al-Amarna, Mallawi Example of a house Image copyright: Nora Shalaby, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Tell el-Amarna Image copyright: Malcolm Bott (Malcolm Bott), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Tell al-Amarna, Mallawi Northern noble tombs Image copyright: Nora Shalaby, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Al Amarna submitted by Flickr : Cultivation Meets Eastern Desert, Tel al Amarna Image copyright: O Bejeweled Land (Zendeh baad Azadi), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Live from the Met, New York Philip Glass's Akhnaten by Andy B on Friday, 13 December 2019
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Last week, live from the Met, New York was Philip Glass's Akhnaten, with countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo as the Egyptian pharaoh who worshipped the Sun, revolutionising his kingdom's ancient religious practices, with tragic consequences for him and his family.

It's sung in original languages in a text put together by the composer and writers, with a narration in English. The third and last of Glass's so-called biographical operas together with Einstein on the Beach, on Einstein, and Satyagraha, on Ghandi. Karen Kamensek, a Glass specialist, conducts the chorus and orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera House.

Listen to the entire thing for the next 24 days:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000c2s1

It has been described as 'singing archaeology' - the libretto was stitched together from fragments of ancient text, including an inscription from a boundary marker found near the ruins of Akhnaten’s city Akhetaten, fragments of the “Amarna letters” (diplomatic correspondence from Akhnaten’s court), and a prayer likely written by Akhnaten himself (the beautiful “hymn to the sun”). The text for the Prelude comes from the Pyramid Texts, the earliest extant funerary literature from ancient Egypt, while the text for Amenhotep III’s funeral comes from the much later Book of the Dead.

https://www.metopera.org/globalassets/discover/education/educator-guides/19-20-ed-guides/akhnaten-19-20/akhnaten.19-20.guide.pdf

Towards the end, you will hear:

To reach Tel-el-Amarna, drive eight miles south
of Mallawi to the point where you cross the Nile.
On the east side of the Nile the distance is less than
a mile and can be covered on foot or on donkey.
Behind the present village, at the ancient site of
Tel-el-Amarna, the ruins known as the palace of
Nefertiti are among the very few remnants of the
Akhnaten period. Tablets in cuneiform writing,
which contain correspondence between Egypt and
Syria, were found here and are now the the Cairo
Museum. (To see any sights on the Eastern bank
of the river you must cross by ferry which carries
cars along with the usual donkey carts and local
traffic. The ferry docking station is located at the
southern end of the town. You should arrive there
at least one-half hour before the 6:00 AM crossing.
The ferry does a brisk business and you will need
every available second for sight seeing.
There is nothing left of this glorious city of temples and
palaces. The mud brick buildings have long since
crumbled and little remains of the immense stone
temples but the outlines of their floor plans. In addition
to the tombs and ruins of the city, there are several
stelæ scattered around the plain which mark the limits
of the land belonging to the city, most of them are too
widely scattered to visit and are also in bad condition.

Text recited from Frommer's Guide to Egypt, and
Fodor's Egypt - from the libretto of Akhnaten
https://www.opera-arias.com/glass/akhnaten/libretto/

More in our Music Inspired by Ancient Sites mega-thread
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=5154&forum=2&start=280
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Hagg Kandil site at Amarna, Egypt. by bat400 on Monday, 11 November 2013
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coldrum sends Nevine El-Aref's article from weekly.ahram.org.eg/ (archive link). This is an excerpt:
CAPITAL OF THE FIRST MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION: The most recent encroachment was at Amarna, where residents of the neighbouring village of the Hagg Kandil began cultivating the area adjacent to an 18th-Dynasty noblemen’s cemetery. Minya’s archaeological inspectorate sent a report to both the local police and the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), which ordered a halt to the encroachment and stepped up security in the area, while tourism and antiquities police were deployed nearby.

The former chairman of the MSA’s ancient Egyptian antiquities sector, Mohamed Al-Biali, points out that the Hagg Kandil site was an important part of the capital during the reign of Akhenaten. It contains the tomb of the nobleman Iay, one of Akhenaten’s high priests, who was also the godfather of the Boy King Tutankhamun and who seized the throne after Tutankhamun’s death. Also at the Hagg Kandil is the tomb of Mahou, Akhenaten’s chief of police, along with remains of the Aten Temple and the celebrated “borders relief” which depicts ancient Egypt’s geographical borders with neighbouring empires.

Fortunately police have succeeded in stopping the agricultural encroachment at Tel Al-Amarna at an early stage without any loss to antiquity.
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