Tell el Amarna

American  

[tel el uh-mahr-nuh] / ˈtɛl ɛl əˈmɑr nə /

Also Tel Amarna or Tell-el-Amarna,

noun

1. a village in central Egypt, on the Nile: site of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton; extensive excavations.

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Tell el Amarna British  

/ ˈtɛl ɛl əˈmɑːnə /

noun

1. a group of ruins and rock tombs in Upper Egypt, on the Nile below Asyut: site of the capital of Amenhotep IV, built about 1375 _bc ; excavated from 1891 onwards

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Tell el Amarna

The immediate purchase, for example, by museum agents of the Tell el Amarna tablets—the correspondence of a great Pharaoh—which had been discovered by accident, and would perhaps have been destroyed, was most wise.

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

They are the data by reason of which the Tell el Amarna archives constitute a unique store of historical material for the study of the history of civilisation.

From The Tell El Amarna Period by J. (Jane) Hutchison

Napkhuria did not even see the completion of his city at Tell el Amarna, for he died in 1370 B.C.

From The Tell El Amarna Period by J. (Jane) Hutchison

Of the subsequent period For the long period before the Tell el Amarna times, circa b.c.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

A short time before his death Nimmuria had married another daughter of Tushratta, Tadukhipa, the long inventory of whose dowry was found at Tell el Amarna.

From The Tell El Amarna Period by J. (Jane) Hutchison