Amarna Tales (Part 01).
East of Akhet-Aten (Amarna), a walled-village hides among the hills. A well-ordered, secluded community, this East Village seems to be the home of pharaoh’s tomb-builders. Originally living at Deir el-Medina, in west Luxor, the community may have moved to Amarna to work on the many royal and non-royal tombs in the city. But as archaeologists explored this site, they found a great deal of information on families, village organisation, piety, and security in the city. This village spans the later years of Akhenaten, the reign of Neferneferuaten, and the early years of Tutankhamun. As we explore, we get a wonderful glimpse at private lives…
- Date: c. 1355 – 1340 BCE.
- Location: Akhet-Aten (el-Amarna).
- Kings: Akhenaten, Neferneferuaten, Tutankhaten/Tutankhamun.
- Music by Keith Zizza.
- Music by Bettina Joy de Guzman www.bettinajoydeguzman.com.
- Music interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos.
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- A. Stevens, ‘Private Religion in the Amarna Suburbs’, in F. Kampp-Seyfried (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery (2012), 95—97.
- A. Stevens, ‘Visibility, Private Religion and the Urban Landscape of Amarna’, in M. Dalton et al. (eds.), Seen & Unseen Spaces (2015), 77—84.
