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...over by a Pharaoh named Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti. During his 17-year reign the old gods were cast aside, monotheism was introduced, and the arts liberated from their stifling rigidity. Even Egypt's capital was moved to a new city along the Nile called Akhetaten (modern Amarna). But like Camelot, it was short-lived, and its legacy was buried in the desert sands...
...Amon may have been a move to bring harmony and prosperity to a weakened and disordered land. Says Manning: "He had to restore order to Egypt if he was going to rule effectively, and we know he moved the capital from Akhetaton [which is now called Tel el Amarna] back to Thebes. What we've found here so far suggests that he would have had a major role in promoting the cult of Mut, which would be a logical move if he were trying to unite Egypt...
Harvard squad members had very different reactions to their visits to Norfolk. Richard S. Green '76 said, "I was amazed by how much the inmates knew. I talked with one of them at length about the reign of Amenhotep IV, an Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled during the Amarna Period...
...founder of a new religion, Akhenaten needed a new capital for his god, and he found it at Tell el Amarna, a scoop in the hills along the Nile halfway between Memphis and Thebes. There, with an authority today's modern planners can only envy, Akhenaten laid out and had built a whole city. But when he died, the traditionalists took over and tore the whole place down. Thus there are few surviving works of monumental size, but the smaller objects, dug out of the rubble of Tell el Amarna and now on exhibition in Brooklyn, testify dramatically...
Harvard snagged five of 270 Guggenheims fellowship awards for 1962. Win of grants for scholarly and scientific research: Edmund I. Gordon, follow of the American Schools of Oriental Research, who will study the history of the ancient Middle East based on cuneiform tablets excavated at Hi-Amarna, Egypt; Robert W. Meevs, assistant professor of Music, musical compositions General A. Halten, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, automatic information storage and retrieval; Jack M. Stein, producer of German, relation between text and musical setting in 18th and 19th century German song; and Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of of Chemistry, phosphate...