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Tell el Amarna
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Tell el Amarna [ˈtɛl ɛl əˈmɑːnə]
n
(Placename) 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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The topics include raw materials and manufacturing processes of neolithic pottery from Switzerland, Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC, a possibly foreign glassworker at Amarna, the microanalysis of glass by laser induced plasma spectroscopy, lead isotopes and Archaeology, and industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawah en-Sukkar in Jordan.
What we do know of this elegant Egyptian queen comes mostly from the Aten Temple and an ongoing excavation at Amarna by the British Egypt Exploration Society.
According to his nephew Silvio, Giacometti was greatly drawn to this Amarna style, setting the artist on the path for which he is mainly known today.
 
 
 
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