Amarna, Tell El-

Also spelled �Tall al-Amarna�, or �Tel el-Amarna� site of the ruins and tombs of the city of Akhetaton (�Horizon of Aton�) in Upper Egypt, 44 miles (71 km) north of modern Asyut in al-Minya muhafazah (governorate). On a virgin site on the east bank of the Nile, Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) built the city in about 1348 BC as the new capital of his kingdom when he abandoned the worship of Amon and devoted himself to that of Aton. About four years after Akhenaton's