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Ancient Egypt The New Kingdom: The State

A colossal statue of Akhenaten from his Aten Temple at Karnak; Cairo Museum

The sacred territory of Akhetaten with locations of boundary stelae

Akhetaten, Boundary Stela N (3. 9 m) and reconstruction

The Tomb of Ay, plan and detail of Ay and Tiy adoring Aten (18 th Dyn) on the wall carrying The Great Hymn to Aten

House shrine of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children from Amarna (18 th Dyn), limestone, 32. 5 cm; Egyptian Museum, Berlin Stela from the Great temple of Aten from Akhetaten with cartouches of Aten on front, Akhenaten and Neferkheperure on the side (18 th Dyn); white limestone, ; Turin, Egyptian Museum

Plan of the area of el-Amarna and Jean Claude Golvin’s overview

Tomb of Mahu, scenes of Akhenaten with his queen Nefertiti on the royal chariot drive attended by a running bodyguard led by “Chief of Police of Akhetaten, Mahu”; Amarna (18 th Dyn)

Akhetaten, Plan of the Central City

Akhenaten at the Window of Appearance, rewarding Parennefer, who receives golden necklaces while scribes record and servants pack away other gifts; below servants carry out rations for distribution; reconstruction of a relief from the Tomb of Parennefer, Amarna (18 th Dyn)

View and plan of the Tomb of Panehsy (18 th Dyn), Amarna northern tombs; reconstruction of the royal visit to the temple of the Aten on the western wall

Plan of the area of el-Amarna Akhenaten in the typical “Amarna Style” (18 th Dyn), 15 cm; Altes Museum, Berlin

Palaeolithic 700, 000 -7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800 -4700 Early Middle Late 8800 -6800 6600 -5100 -4700 Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada III 5300 -3000 5300 -4000 -3200 4400 -4000 -3500 (Amratian) 3500 -3200 (Gerzean) 3200 -3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th-30 th) 2 d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian 332 -310 Ptolemaic 305 -30 Roman 525 -404 343 -332 332 -30 30 BCE-642 CE