https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3 en-us 2023-02-08 11:27:36 UTC 2023-02-15 15:06:38 UTC hello@padlet.com ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473266300 Amarna was built to construct a city dedicated to the worship of the Aten separate from already established cults.]]> 2023-02-08 11:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473266300 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473276522 Tell el-Amarna (often abreviated to Amarna) is a modern name that applies to an extensive archaeological site that is primarily the remains of an ephemeral capital city built and abandoned within about fifteen years during the late Eighteenth Dynasty (in the New Kingdom), between about 1347 and 1332 BCE.]]> 2023-02-08 11:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473276522 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473281571 The site is open to visitors every day from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Tickets for the main monuments must be purchased from the Ticket Office situated on the road to the North Tombs. However it is all in ruins.]]> 2023-02-08 11:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473281571 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473282467 Pharaoh Akhenaten imposed a single religion, based on the worship of the sun disk “Aten,” and built a new capital city, Amarna, using entirely new architectural techniques. For the first time, researchers were able to reproduce 3D models of some of its buildings.]]> 2023-02-08 11:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473282467 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473294799 It is the only ancient Egyptian city which preserves great details of its internal plan, in large part because the city was abandoned after the death of Akhenaten, when Akhenaten's son, King Tutankhamun, decided to leave the city and return to his birthplace in Thebes (modern Luxor).]]> 2023-02-08 11:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2473294799 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2476202322 Amarna (Tell el-Amarna) can be found on the east bank of the river Nile about half way between Egypt's capital city of Cairo in the North and Luxor in the South]]> 2023-02-10 09:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2476202322 ireneps https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2476206775 Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, the Amarna religion, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty.]]> 2023-02-10 09:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ireneps/8f1ikzll2ld0fnd3/wish/2476206775