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    In his article, “Akhenaten: Egyptian Pharaoh, Nefertiti’s Husband, Tut’s Father”, Jarus mentions that the Akhenaten was the son of Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye. According to his article, “Akhenaten was a pharaoh who reigned over the Egypt for about 17 years between roughly 1353 B.C. and 1335 B.C. When he ascended the throne his name was Amenhotep IV, but in his sixth year of rule he changed it to Akhenaten which can be translated as the Benevolent one of the Aten.” According to the…

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    Akhenaten Religious System

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    Egypt, although many argue that Akhenaten acknowledged all gods but only actively worshipped Aten. This would classify the religious system of the time period as a monolatry. The rule of Akhenaten and contemporary artistic style is now known as the Amarna period, named after the location to which the king and queen relocated their royal residence. While…

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    Nick Drake’s Nefertiti: Book of the Dead is just one of many historical novel set in Ancient Egypt. Depicting the Amarna period in which king Akhenaten not only moved the capital of Egypt to his newly created city of Amarna, but also deemed all gods were inferior to Aten, the sun god, and set Egypt towards monotheism. The book follows Rahoter, a “seeker of mysteries,” (an ancient detective) called from Thebes to the new capital to solve a mystery he knows nothing of until he meets Akhenaten…

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    The time-frame during which Akhenaten dominated as king, Pharaoh and representative of Aten was the corner stones of developing non secular concepts. Throughout Akhenaten’s reign, within the Amarna era, cities were enraptured and creative work and magnificence modified. However, just what makes this era so revolutionary is that the truth of those forceful changes befell in such a brief period of your time. Akhenaten has actually affected the…

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    Essay About Wine

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    Abstract Historically, the Mediterranean countries associated with wine production; we have many evidences which prove the archaic industry of wine in these countries. Although some countries could adopt a new trend of tourism based on wine and definite the visitors the steps of wine process from harvesting to storage; this new type has met a great demand in tourism marketing, but others couldn 't promote this new type which has known as 'Wine Tourism '. Although the iconographical,…

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    Akhenaten Beliefs

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    founded a new religion that was completely divergent from the millennia old worship of Ma’at, moving the capital of Egypt and converting the Empire into a monotheistic society centred around the Aten - or sun. However the premise of the revolutionary Amarna Period was well before its time and its core elements served as the foundations for the most popular modern religion, Christianity, despite being the underlying reason for the Egyptian Empire’s downfall. The traditional religion and way…

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    (FOOTNOTE TEMPLE ARTICLE). For example, in Amarna the people erected a central temple followed by several sectors of palaces, domestic housing, office administrative buildings, and ramps. This implies that a centralized form of government existed, as well as social stratification. A higher power had to have organized the planning and building, while people with less power executed the plan. However, no more knowledge can be excavated because Amarna suffered a large loss of river frontage due…

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    different ideals of beauty that directly correlated with the world around them. The Bust of Queen Nefertiti, depicting the grace and power of a dominant Egyptian queen that corresponds with both the views of women as well as idealized beauty of the Amarna period; the Venus of Urbino, a piece that portrays the ideals of beauty, of the Renaissance that still remains fairly unknown in purpose and depiction; and Judith Slaying Holofernes, picturing the high levels of drama as well as the…

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    portraiture. Most famous is a limestone painted bust of the queen wearing a modius offers a clear idea of 18th century art in Egypt. Although we see the Amarna style carried on through the family of Akhenaten and Nefertiti it is abandoned after Akhenaten’s death and his images destroyed at Amarna for his careless leadership. Tutankhamen aborts the Amarna style of portraiture even though traces of it carry into his own portraits. Years pass until a new style emerges but also resonates with the…

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    Borchardt in 1912 at Amarna. After transferring several times in different locations, the bust of Nefertiti finally settled in Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. As the meaning of her name – “the beautiful one has come forth”, Nefertiti is one of the most famous and beautiful symbols of the ancient world. She was the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. A great deal of the arts of her discovered nowadays indicate her as an important role of the Amarna period. The…

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