Amarna
Good to know
- Best time to go
- October to April to avoid the heat of the open desert plain
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The short-lived capital built by the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten spreads across a desert plain beside the Nile, its temples and palaces reduced to outlines but its rock-cut noble tombs rich with scenes of the Aten cult. Few visitors make it here, giving the site a haunting emptiness.
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