115: Amarna, City of Akhenaten (Part 2)

Building Quickly. When Akhenaten demanded a new royal residence (Akhet-Aten), it fell to countless labourers, overseers and donkeys to gather the material needed for the city. Archaeologists scouring the landscape of Akhet-Aten and its neighbourhood have found a great deal of evidence for stone quarrying, ancient road networks, and even the rudimentary concrete used to strengthen buildings...

Part 1: Hatiay, the master builder. His life and house.

Part 2: The archaeology of workers' life at Amarna.

Date: c.1357 BCE (regnal year 6).

Pharaoh: Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re).

Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten).

Locations: Akhet-Aten (Amarna).

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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.

Select Bibliography:

Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.

Henri Frankfort; H W Fairman; J D S Pendlebury, The City of Akhenaten II: The North Suburb and the Desert Altars, 1933.

Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.

Stevens, A. (2020). Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient city of Akhetaten.

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