Amarna
Amarna is a significant archaeological location in Middle Egypt, in the modern Egyptian province of el-Minya. Amarna sits between the east bank of the river Nile and the high plateau of the Eastern Desert, some 58 km south of Minya, 402 km north of Luxor and 312 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Markh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Egyptian archaeological site
- Also known as: “Akhetaten”, “Akhetaton”, “El-Amarna”, “Tall al `Amarinah”, “Tel el-Amarna”, and “Tell El-Amarna”
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Temple of the Aten and Small Aten Temple.
Great Temple of the Aten
The Great Temple of the Aten was a temple located in the city of el-Amarna, Egypt. It served as the main place of worship of the deity Aten during the reign of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten.Small Aten Temple
Photo: Markh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Small Aten Temple is a temple to the Aten located in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. It is one of the two major temples in the city, the other being the Great Temple of the Aten.
Amarna
- Categories: archaeological site, ancient city, tell, tourism, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Red Sea, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.6464° or 27° 38′ 47″ northLongitude
30.8989° or 30° 53′ 56″ eastElevation
195 metres (640 feet)Open location code
7GVGJVWX+HHOpenStreetMap ID
way 102555365OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
347585Wikidata ID
Q5736
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Amarna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Amarna”
- Albanian: “Amarna”
- Arabic: “أخت أتون”
- Arabic: “العمارنة al-‘amārnah”
- Arabic: “تل العمارنة”
- Armenian: “Էլ–Ամառնա”
- Armenian: “Թել ալ-Ամառնա”
- Basque: “Amarna”
- Basque: “Tell al-Amarna”
- Basque: “Tell el-Amarna”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Амарна”
- Belarusian: “Амарна”
- Bulgarian: “Ахетатон”
- Catalan: “Akhetaton”
- Catalan: “Al-Amārna”
- Catalan: “Amarna”
- Catalan: “Tell al-Amarna”
- Catalan: “Till el-Amarna”
- Cebuano: “Tall al ‘Amārinah”
- Chinese: “古巴．遊蹤”
- Chinese: “尼托斯”
- Chinese: “阿玛纳”
- Croatian: “Amarna”
- Czech: “El Amarna”
- Danish: “Amarna”
- Dutch: “Achetaton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل العمارنه”
- Esperanto: “Amarna”
- Finnish: “Akhetaten”
- French: “Amarna”
- French: “Tell el-Amarna”
- Galician: “Akhetaton”
- Galician: “Amarna”
- Georgian: “ელ-ამარნა”
- German: “Achet-Aton”
- German: “Amarna”
- German: “Tell el-Amarna”
- German: “Tell el-ʿAmārna”
- Greek: “Αμάρνα”
- Greek: “Ελ-Αμάρνα”
- Greek: “Τελ ελ-Αμάρνα”
- Hebrew: “אחתאתון”
- Hebrew: “אל עמרנה”
- Hebrew: “אל-עמארנה”
- Hungarian: “Ahet-Aton”
- Indonesian: “Amarna”
- Irish: “Amarna”
- Italian: “Amarna”
- Japanese: “アマルナ”
- Kannada: “ಟೆಲ್ ಎಲ್ ಅಮಾರ್ನ”
- Kazakh: “Амарна”
- Korean: “아마르나”
- Latvian: “Ahetatona”
- Latvian: “Amārna”
- Latvian: “el Amārna”
- Latvian: “Tella el Amārna”
- Latvian: “Tilla el Amārna”
- Lithuanian: “Amarna”
- Malay: “Amarnah”
- Maltese: “Amarna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amarna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “el-Amarna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel el-Amarna”
- Norwegian: “Amarna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Amarna”
- Panjabi: “ਅਮਰਨਾ”
- Persian: “عمارنه”
- Polish: “Amarna”
- Polish: “Tell el-Amarna”
- Portuguese: “Amarna”
- Romanian: “Akhetaten”
- Romanian: “Akhetaton”
- Romanian: “Amarna”
- Romanian: “El-Amarna”
- Russian: “Амарна”
- Russian: “Ахетатон”
- Serbian: “Амарна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amarna”
- Sinhala: “අමර්ණ”
- Slovenian: “Amarna”
- Spanish: “Ajetaton”
- Spanish: “Ajetatón”
- Spanish: “Amarna”
- Spanish: “El-Amarna”
- Spanish: “Tel el-Amarna”
- Spanish: “Tell el-Amarna”
- Swahili: “Amarna”
- Swedish: “El-Amarna”
- Tagalog: “Amarna”
- Tamil: “அமர்னா”
- Telugu: “అమర్నా”
- Thai: “อะมาร์นา”
- Turkish: “Amarna”
- Turkish: “Tel-el-Amarna”
- Ukrainian: “Амарна”
- Ukrainian: “Ахетатон”
- Urdu: “عمارنہ”
- Vietnamese: “Amarna”
- Wu Chinese: “阿玛纳”
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