Amarna (egy)

Amarna

Amarna ranks 4,114th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Joensuu, Rahway, New Jersey, and Pavlovsk Palace. Memorable people born in Amarna include Tutankhamun, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, and Neferneferure. Memorable people who died in Amarna include Nefertiti, Akhenaten, and Smenkhkare. Amarna has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and companions. Amarna is located in Egypt.

Amarna is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city of Akhetaten was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and abandoned shortly after his death in 1332 BC. The name that the ancient Egyptians used for the city is transliterated as Akhetaten or Akhetaton, meaning "the horizon of the Aten". Read more on Wikipedia