Amarna

Amarna, or Tell el-Amarna, refers to the archaeological site that lies on the desert close to the east bank of the Nile, in the province of El-Minia, roughly halfway between Cairo and Luxor. It was the heart of a sacred ground dedicated to the cult of the sun, the Aten, which the Pharaoh Akhenaten promoted during his reign between about 1347 and 1332 BCE. It was thus more a sacred place dedicated to a god than an actual capital city. Akhenaten, formerly called Amenhetep IV, was the son of Amenhetep III and queen Tiy, the tenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who carried on a religious reform that replaced the complex Egyptian theology with the cult of a single sun-god, the Aten. The first temples to the Aten were built at Karnak. In the fith year of his reign, he changed his name and chose Amarna as the site for an entirely new place of royal residence and religious devotion. This new place…

Akhenaten and his family during the Amarna art period has been a source of great contention amongst Egyptologists and scholars for many years. Two opposing arguments have been developed that attempt to explain what caused this sudden change in representation of the king and royal family from the traditional canon of Egyptian artistic portrayal. The first argument put forth by scholars is the belief that Akhenaten and his family’s bizarre depictions were simply symbolic and ideological and not…

A View into Three Art Periods Amarna Style Although Egypt has a vast and rich history the style ushered in by Akhenaten may be one of the most important in ancient Egyptian history. The rule of Amenhotep IV began in 1350 B.C. During his reign, his devotion to the sun god Aten caused the Egyptians to transform into a more monotheistic society. Following the beginning of his rise to power Amenhotep IV soon changed his name to Akhenaten and promptly moved the capitol to a new city named Akhetaten…

in today. Art, according to Merriam-Webster is defined as "paintings, sculptures and drawings created to be beautiful or to represent expressed feelings or ideas". History is revealed everyday throughout the world of art and meanings behind them. Ancient Egyptian history has always been a fascination for many people. Egypt holds a great amount of importance within Art history. To most, when you hear of Ancient Egypt, you think about two things: Mummies and Pyramids. Considering this, there is…

began shifting his beliefs towards Amun. He was so devoted to Amun that he ended up starting a structural project, which consisted of building a temple specifically dedicated to the worship of Aten, the sun god (Kemp). Shortly after this, he ended up introducing a new take on religion in Egypt, the worshipping of a single God. The God that he chose to worship, was Aten. He was so devoted to Aten that he ended up changing his name to Akhenaten, which translates to “he who praises Aten” (Ismail). …

The history of bowling goes way back to the 3200BC in egypt. In the 1930’s Sir Flinders Petrie found a colection of objects that represented bowlig in a egyptions childs grave. There are documents that show a form of bowling in England in 1366, when King Edward III banned it inorder to make the troops focused on archery practice. It also seems that bowling during King Henry VIII time at throne was much alive. At this time there were still many variations of “pin games”, such as lawn bowling…

Akhenaten must have truly valued his wife to bestow her with such an honor with his full confidence in her ability to help him manage the reforms he wished to initiate. Nefertiti must have wielded more power than any woman in Egypt since the time of Hatshepsut (1479-1458 BCE). (Mark) Several temples to Aten had been commissioned in Thebes by the pharaoh before his announcement. The artwork on these temples were unlike the adornments of previous temples. Idolatry of gods and reliefs…

Akhenaton and Nefertiti CA. 1345 BC Painted Limestone Dimensions(H×W×D): 22.20cm×12.30cm×9.80cm New Kingdom of ancient Egypt Now in The Louvre, Paris, France Citation: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/akhenaton-and-nefertiti Akhenaton and Nefertiti was a standing example to denote the characters within its time period and artistic style in the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Describing the king and queen walking forward together, this sculpture recorded their appearances and marriage.…

The Amarna letters (Campbell 1960) date roughly around the mid-fourteenth century B.C. and the Uluburun shipwreck (Fawcett and Zietsman 2012) dates from around 1300 BC. The timeline of the two are close enough to warrant some discussion on their possible linkages. Any such existing linkages may bring clarity in our understanding of the importance of gift exchanges in the Middle East and Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE. The Amarna letters can be considered as historical evidence…

How Akhenaten radically altered artistic representations of royalty to influence the social order during the Amarna period. Physical art forms and the written word that may accompany them are the result of a society or individual representing itself in a controlled manner. It is for that reason that, in looking at how Akhenaten changed the Egyptian social order during the Amarna period, I will be focusing particularly on his changes to artistic representations of the royal family, and how they…