El-Amarna - The Private Houses .. The Official Residence of a Noble – Workmen's Houses – Foreigners' Houses .. Part ( 9 )

Such was the estate of a private individual – not a particularly wealthy one perhaps, but nevertheless quite a warm man . And every private house conforms to the principles just described . A prince might have a dozen columns in his entrance hall and a few more rooms, a poor man was content with a hovel consisting of a central room with mere cubby-holes opening off it, but the principle of a main living-room surrounded by others to keep it cool is invariable .

El-Amarna - The Private Houses .. The Typical Private Estate .. Part ( 8 )

From Palaces and Temples we descend to private houses . These are best studied in the North Suburb, for not only is that the one section of the city to be completely excavated, but the houses on the whole belong to the middle classes and display perfectly the essentials of the Amarna house without the elaborations and additions of the nobleman's mansion .

El-Amarna - The public buildings .. The Small Temple – The Temple Magazines – Maru-Aten – The North Palace .. Part ( 7 )

In connection with the King's House was the smaller temple – the Chapel Royal one might almost call it – of Hat-Aten . The main entrance to this is on the Royal Road, but, as we have seen, the King had a private entrance from his own house, and so had the priests from their quarters to the South .

El-Amarna - The public buildings .. Penehsy House – Records Office – The Great Palace – The Kings Palace – The Royal Magazines .. Part ( 6 )

The royal estate are consists of The House of Penehsy, The Great Palace, The King's House, The Royal Magazines and The Priests' Quarters .

El-Amarna - The public buildings .. The Great Temple .. Part ( 5 )

Before we begin to discuss the various types of buildings it would be advisable to say a word about the building methods and materials . Tell el-Amarna is a city of mud brick . Only in very exceptional circumstances was stone used .

El-Amarna - The City of Akhenaten .. The North Suburb – The South Suburb– The Workmen's Village – The Royal Tomb .. Part ( 4 )

The Northern Group of tombs lies on either side of a bold gap in the line of hills through which a mountain-track across the ridge from El-Sheikh Said enters the plain of El-Amarna . It includes some of the best and most important tombs, such as those of Huya, Meryra ( I and II ), Ahmose, Penehsy, and Penthu .

El-Amarna - The City of Akhenaten .. The Main City – The North City - The Tombs - The Altars – The Tomb Chapels .. Part ( 3 )

When the city of Akhenaten grew and the population increased it naturally expanded towards the North, occupying an area beyond the wady north of the Great Temple but still within easy reach of the centre of the city . To this area the name of the North Suburb has been given . That it is a later expansion is proved not only by the comparatively high proportion of objects bearing the names of Akhenaten's immediate successors, but also by the fact that, as we have seen, it was still spreading northwards when the city was deserted .

El-Amarna - The City of Akhenaten .. General Thoroughfares and The Limits of The City – The Central – The Official Quarters .. ( Part 2 )

The site chosen by Akhenaten for his new capital lies about halfway between Cairo and Luxor on the East bank of the Nile . Here the cliffs of the high desert recede from the river, leaving a great semicircle about eight miles long and three broad .

El-Amarna – Historical Notes .. Part ( 1 )

We are now within the sacred territory of Akhenaten's holy city, Akhetaten, better known to most people as El-Amarna . The present appearance of this once great and famous city is not imposing . The area is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km ( 36 miles ) south of the city of al-Minya .