Image Amarna North Palace Sacred Lake 5887EG07JHP by Jim Henderson

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Photographs in this gallery cover the main sites of Amarna, its North Palace, Aten and Small Temple, Bani Hasan Rock cut chapels, Tuna el-Gebel with the Catacombs with baboon and ibis mummies, Stela of Akhenaten on the north boundary, Petosiris Tomb-Chapel, Chapels of Ptoemais and Isadora, Roman Water Wheel Well and Temple of Thoth and el Ashmunein with an Open Air Museum with huge granite statues of Baboons and nearby a Temple to Thoth with a later Christian Basilica all located along the River Nile between Cairo and Luxor accessed from the nearby university city of Minya
Amarna North Palace Sacred Lake 5887EG07JHP 
 Egypt Amarna North Palace Sacred Lake Egyptian Akhenaten Palm Trees Dry Hole Overgrown by River Nile near Egypt Minya city is built round this feature now identified by a few palm trees in its centre. Its use along with the Hall of Foreign Tribute were perhaps part of the living areas for the royal family of Akhetaten and his Queen Nefertiti although little remains now except the foundations and bases of columns. 
 Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, River, Nile, al-Amarnah, Amarna, city, Akhetaten, Pharaoh, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Aten, North, Palace, sacred lake, palm trees, columns, walls, rooms, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, mudbrick, sand, desert, covered
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn
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Amarna North Palace Sacred Lake 5887EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-22 09:46:55
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Egypt Amarna North Palace Sacred Lake Egyptian Akhenaten Palm Trees

Dry Hole Overgrown by River Nile near Egypt Minya city is built round this feature now identified by a few palm trees in its centre. Its use along with the Hall of Foreign Tribute were perhaps part of the living areas for the royal family of Akhetaten and his Queen Nefertiti although little remains now except the foundations and bases of columns.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, River, Nile, al-Amarnah, Amarna, city, Akhetaten, Pharaoh, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Aten, North, Palace, sacred lake, palm trees, columns, walls, rooms, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, mudbrick, sand, desert, covered