Amarna

Amarna is a significant archaeological location in , in the modern 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 , 402 km north of and 312 km south of the Egyptian capital .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Egyptian archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Achet-Aton”, “Ahetatona”, “Ajetaton”, “Ajetatón”, “Akhetaton”, “el Amārna”, “el-Amarna”, “Tall al `Amarinah”, “Tel el-Amarna”, “Tell El-Amarna”, “Tella el Amārna”, “Till el-Amarna”, “Tilla el Amārna”, “Ελ-Αμάρνα”, “Τελ ελ-Αμάρνα”, “Аль-Амарна”, “אחתאתון”, “אל עמרנה”, “العمارنة al-‘amārnah”, and “古巴．遊蹤”
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Great Temple of the Aten.

The was a temple located in the city of el-Amarna, .

Amarna

Latitude
27.6464° or 27° 38′ 47″ north
Longitude
30.8989° or 30° 53′ 56″ east
Elevation
195 metres (640 feet)
Open location code
7GVGJVWX+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 102555365
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
347585
Wiki­data 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: “تل العمارنة”
  • Armenian: “Էլ–Ամառնա”
  • Armenian: “Թել ալ-Ամառնա”
  • Basque: “Tell al-Amarna”
  • Belarusian: “Амарна”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахетатон”
  • Catalan: “Al-Amārna”
  • Cebuano: “Tall al ‘Amārinah”
  • 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: “Amarna”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ამარნა”
  • German: “Amarna”
  • German: “Tell el-ʿAmārna”
  • Greek: “Αμάρνα”
  • 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”
  • Latin: “Amarna”
  • Latvian: “Amārna”
  • Lithuanian: “Amarna”
  • Malay: “Amarnah”
  • Maltese: “Amarna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amarna”
  • Norwegian: “Amarna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amarna”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮਰਨਾ”
  • Persian: “عمارنه”
  • Polish: “Amarna”
  • Polish: “Tell el-Amarna”
  • Portuguese: “Amarna”
  • Romanian: “Amarna”
  • Russian: “Амарна”
  • Serbian: “Амарна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amarna”
  • Sinhala: “අමර්ණ”
  • Slovenian: “Amarna”
  • Spanish: “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”
  • Urdu: “عمارنہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Amarna”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿玛纳”

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