Amarna cities ::
Located 12 km south of the city Mallawi current Minya governorate, in the 14th century BC left Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife, Queen Nefertiti worship multiple gods, temples and priests of Karnak in Thebes, and founded the new city.
In this new city Qama and their followers to worship the god Aten disk of the sun god, and this was the first known form of the unification of worship of one God.
The city is located in the area now known as Tell el-Amarna was built on land east of the Nile on a single easy and beautiful stretches 12 km from north to south on the crescent-shaped.
With the exception of the city, which is bounded on the Nile palaces, temples and houses surrounded by high Balogerv that punctuated from time to time valleys.
The named their city Okhittatun the horizon disk of the sun, and the city became the capital of Egypt for only about 14 years old.
After the death of Akhenaten became Okhittatun city deserted Karnak, where the priests of violating the sanctity of the temples of the furnace, they did all they could to remove traces and records a furnace Vohmmelt religion Okhittatun and become a desolation and used stones palaces and temples to build Hermopolis and other cities
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