One Day in Amarna: Akhenaten's city of Akhet-aten
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- On 28 October 2022, after waiting fifty years since the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum in 1972, I finally made a visit to the city of Akhet-aten built by Akhenaten and Nefertiti, his probable (or possible) parents. This is a video of still photographs, designed to serve as a work of reference. There are many personal videos on YT of the site and I see no need to add to them. I hope those who are interested in the Akhenaten episode will find the images of interest and also useful.
I just finished watching your older videos (some multiple times), and am delighted to know you are still sharing new ones. Thank you
I was delighted to see something new by you today Guy. Excellent video, the next best thing to actually being there. I wonder why the Egyptian authorities are so reticent about the huge international interest in Amarna. Is their attitude confined to Armana or is it a general thing with other sites ? Excellent photos - I was glad to see Akhenaten's name preserved in quite a few of them.
What a privilege to be able to see all of this through your incredible journey, thank you!
I was hoping you would continue to make videos. I await the publication of your latest book in North America.
Thank you for the fascinating tour of Armana. I was intrigued by the pictures of the "Office of Correspondence." How in the world could anyone have found the Armana letters in such a desultory landscape/ruins!? Wonder if there has been any further, more serious excavations looking for additional clay tablets?
By the way, I'll help defray your costs for the trip by buying a copy of "Pharaohs of the Sun" once it [finally] reaches the USA - in this remarkable age of electronic publishing I fail to understand the delay!
So will I.
Baked clay tablets are like a rock, practically indestructible. Over 30.000 were found in Mesopotamia, some a thousand-years older than the Amarna tablets.
I think there's a balance to be struck between protecting sites and artefacts and terrifying everyone who goes near them, and sadly I've had the same experience in Egypt (if not slightly worse- as an easily bullied lone female traveller!) I found it so disheartening that it almost ruined my PhD, and left me with awful associations for things I love. Nevertheless, your videos have been really interesting and helpful in coming back to this subject years later.
A very clear and interesting explanation and it appeared to be without a prompt board so I was quite impressed as you obviously do know your stuff properly and don’t have to buffet up all the time from the board. I have been on some tours in Egypt and on the Nile and I do relate very much to the difficulties that the guides present the guides and the guards but overall I enjoyed it and the country is most interesting so I would go again if I could stand the heat
You could watch this video and read the comments: ruclips.net/video/8LzuZrkEY18/видео.html
I'm afraid I couldn't contradict anything in it, sadly. It's about a film crew and what happened to them - eighteen years ago when I was filming in Egypt with Discovery the camera crews then similarly had most of their equipment impounded until they left the country. On my most recent trip there were various issues from the moment we landed until we left that made Egypt a dispiriting and intimidating place to be in, especially at the airport. It's particularly oppressive in Middle Egypt where we spent much of the trip. We are most unlikely to be returning. It's also by a country mile the most expensive place we have ever visited. Ten days in Egypt cost us more than four weeks touring in the western United States and I know which I enjoyed more.
Great to have another post Guy. You've given us a unique opportunity to travel 'with you' to an amazing moment in humanity's story. Cheers from Toby in Albany WA.
Glad that you were finally able to visit Armana, Guy. Thanks for putting this video together.
As a fellow historian, I've always wondered just who supported Akhenaten if he was seemingly reviled later? Enough people had to "buy into" what he was doing for him to do what he did. I can't buy into the idea that "legitimacy" alone would be enough to force compliance.
Wonderful video. Have read--I believe-all your books on Roman Britain. Look forward to reading your new book.
Thank you Guy, this is beautiful.
My hypothesis is that Ay (or Eye) was already present as a young Amun-priest at the funeral of Akhenaten's father Amenhotep, and when Tutankhamun died, Ay replicated his grandfather's funerary objects for Tutankhamun, and thus they are the same what Amenhotep had. This also served Ay's purpose, an usurper to the throne, to signal to the priests that he will restore the cult of Amun, and so they should approve of his succession.
Love your videos. I will be buying your book!
Thank you for all your videos. I particularly appreciate your take on the oppression foisted by the elite of Egypt upon their people. One question : have you ever read any Volney ? Ruins of Empires ? Travels Through Syria and Egypt?
You are amazing
my favorite from Time Team
Interesting, I thought it was talatat and not mud brick.
The talatat blocks with their relief decorations are mainly found among the dismantled remnants of the Gem-pa-Aten temple at Karnak. They do also appear at Akhet-aten but the vast majority of the various surviving structures' wall cores there were made of mudbrick which was then plastered and painted. In any other place they would have been long since washed away.
Do you think it’s odd that they were worshipping the sun but the buildings really didn’t alone with the sun cycles?
better staying in great museums such as British than return the archaelogical pieces to Egypt owing to those extreme islamic fanatics who destroy forever very valuable pieces, a lot lost or spoilt. love that so beautiful library behind backround. plz show us those impressive books and tell us their special meaning for you.
Astonishing to realize that decades ago, we read that the Pyramids of Egypt *must have been* constructed by enormous gangs of brutalized slaves, but it turns out it was Amarna that was built by slave labor. Interesting.