Amarna
Amarna is a significant archaeological location in Middle Egypt, in the modern Egyptian province of el-Minya. Amarna sits between the east bank of the river Nile and the high plateau of the Eastern Desert, some 58 km south of Minya, 402 km north of Luxor and 312 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.Photo: Markh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Joan lalucat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Great Temple of the Aten
The Great Temple of the Aten was a temple located in the city of el-Amarna, Egypt.Small Aten Temple
Photo: Markh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Small Aten Temple is a temple to the Aten located in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna.
Amarna
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Egyptian archaeological site
- Categories: archaeological site, ancient city, tell, tourism, ruins and historic site
- Location: Red Sea, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.6464° or 27° 38' 47" northLongitude
30.8989° or 30° 53' 56" eastElevation
195 metres (640 feet)Open Location Code
7GVGJVWX+HHOpenStreetMap ID
way 102555365OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
347585Wikidata ID
Q5736Amarna Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Amarna
- Albanian: Amarna
- Arabic: أخت أتون
- Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amārnah
- Arabic: تل العمارنة
- Armenian: Էլ-Ամառնա
- Armenian: Էլ–Ամառնա
- Basque: Amarna
- Basque: Tell al-Amarna
- Basque: Tell el-Amarna
- Belarusian: Аль-Амарна
- Belarusian: Амарна
- Bulgarian: Ахетатон
- Catalan: Akhetaton
- Catalan: Al-Amārna
- Catalan: Amarna
- Catalan: Tell al-Amarna
- Catalan: Till el-Amarna
- Cebuano: Tall al ‘Amārinah
- Chinese: 古巴.遊蹤
- Chinese: 尼托斯
- Chinese: 阿玛纳
- Croatian: Amarna
- Czech: El Amarna
- Danish: Amarna
- Dutch: Achetaton
- Egyptian Arabic: تل العمارنه
- English: Akhetaten
- English: Akhetaton
- English: El-Amarna
- English: Tel el-Amarna
- Esperanto: Amarna
- Finnish: Akhetaten
- French: Amarna
- French: Tell el-Amarna
- Galician: Akhetaton
- Galician: Amarna
- Georgian: ელ-ამარნა
- German: Achet-Aton
- German: Amarna
- German: Tell el-Amarna
- German: Tell el-ʿAmārna
- Greek: Αμάρνα
- Greek: Ελ-Αμάρνα
- Greek: Τελ ελ-Αμάρνα
- Hebrew: אחתאתון
- Hebrew: אל-עמארנה
- Hebrew: אל עמרנה
- Hungarian: Ahet-Aton
- Indonesian: Amarna
- Irish: Amarna
- Italian: Amarna
- Japanese: アマルナ
- Kannada: ಟೆಲ್ ಎಲ್ ಅಮಾರ್ನ
- Kazakh: Амарна
- Korean: 아마르나
- Latvian: Ahetatona
- Latvian: Amārna
- Latvian: Tella el Amārna
- Latvian: Tilla el Amārna
- Latvian: el Amārna
- Lithuanian: Amarna
- Malay: Amarnah
- Maltese: Amarna
- Norwegian: Amarna
- Norwegian Bokmål: Amarna
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tel el-Amarna
- Norwegian Bokmål: el-Amarna
- Occitan (post 1500): Amarna
- Panjabi: ਅਮਰਨਾ
- Persian: عمارنه
- Polish: Amarna
- Polish: Tell el-Amarna
- Portuguese: Amarna
- Romanian: Akhetaten
- Romanian: Akhetaton
- Romanian: Amarna
- Romanian: El-Amarna
- Russian: Амарна
- Russian: Ахетатон
- Serbian: Амарна
- Serbo-Croatian: Amarna
- Sinhala: අමර්ණ
- Slovenian: Amarna
- Spanish: Amarna
- Spanish: Tell el-Amarna
- Swahili: Amarna
- Swedish: El-Amarna
- Tagalog: Amarna
- Tamil: அமர்னா
- Telugu: అమర్నా
- Thai: อะมาร์นา
- Turkish: Amarna
- Turkish: Tel-el-Amarna
- Ukrainian: Амарна
- Ukrainian: Ахетатон
- Urdu: عمارنہ
- Vietnamese: Amarna
- Wu Chinese: 阿玛纳
- Tall al `Amarinah
- Tell El-Amarna
Other Places Named Amarna
In the Area
- Ahet-AtonNeighbourhood
- Tel Al AmarnaVillage
- Dir Mawas CityTown, 5 km west
- Wadi Abu Hasah al BahriLocality, 7 km east
- Al MasarahVillage, 7 km northwest
- Sarhan CliffVillage, 8 km southwest
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Amarna. Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.