Qualla: Amarna https://qualla.com/amarna en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/v/v/amarna-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Amarna https://qualla.com/amarna Amarna: Introduction https://qualla.com/amarna/ Photo credit en:User:Markh, CC BY-SA 3.0. A pharaoh stood on the east bank of the Nile, on ground no city had ever occupied, and declared that here - and nowhere else - he would build his capital. The year was around 1346 BC. The king was Akhenaten, and the place where the cliffs parted in a shape that echoed the hieroglyph for "horizon" became Akhetaten, "the Horizon of the Aten." Within a few short years a whole city of mudbrick palaces, temples, and suburbs rose from bare sand. Within a few short years after his death, it was empty again. Almost nobody lived here afterward, which is precisely why we can still read its streets so clearly today.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/v/v/amarna-wp/ssvv-amarna-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Amarna: A King's Revolution https://qualla.com/amarna/ Photo credit Keith Schengili-Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.5. Akhenaten did something no Egyptian ruler had dared. He swept aside the crowded pantheon his people had worshipped for millennia and elevated a single deity: the Aten, the visible disc of the sun, its rays ending in tiny hands that offered life. To worship this god properly, he a...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/v/v/amarna-wp/ssvv-amarna-a-kings-revolution.mp3 0:06 2 full Amarna: The Woman in the Workshop https://qualla.com/amarna/ Photo credit Public domain. Among the houses of the southern suburb stood the studio of a sculptor named Thutmose. When German archaeologists dug there in 1912, they uncovered, lying in the ruins of his workshop, one of the most recognized faces in human history: the painted limestone bust of Queen Nefertit...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/v/v/amarna-wp/ssvv-amarna-the-woman-in-the-workshop.mp3 0:06 3 full Amarna: Letters in Clay https://qualla.com/amarna/ Photo credit Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1887 a local woman digging in the ruins for sebakh - the crumbled mudbrick that Egyptians spread on their fields as fertilizer - struck a buried cache of clay tablets. They turned out to be one of the great finds in the study of the ancient world: nearly four hundred cuneiform...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/v/v/amarna-wp/ssvv-amarna-letters-in-clay.mp3 0:06 4 full Amarna: Erased and Rediscovered https://qualla.com/amarna/ Photo credit Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0. The revolution did not outlive its author. After Akhenaten died around 1336 BC, the boy-king Tutankhamun - very likely his son - abandoned Akhetaten and returned the court to Thebes, restoring the old gods. Later pharaohs went further, branding the whole episode the "Amarna heres...

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