Akhenaten: The Pharaoh Erased from Egypt’s Stones and Memory
On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.
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On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.
On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.
On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.
On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.
On the eastern bank of the Nile, about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, a city lies almost abandoned in the desert. The ancient Egyptians called it Akhetaten, “the horizon of Aten”. Today the site is known as Amarna. Houses, palaces, temples, and cemeteries still mark the ground, but the name of the man who built the city was repeatedly cut out of stone.