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  • The first archaeologist to excavate this site only uncovered half of it before he quit for mysterious reasons. Another curse of the mummy story.
  • The palace itself was thought to be a gift to the wife, Tiye, of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. A modern romantic idea.
  • These were later inhabited by queens like Ankhesenamun (wife of Tutankhamun) and possibly Aye's wife Tiya. There is no archaeological evidence of their names being connected with the site, guesswork.
  • [a gigantic pleasure lake] built for one of Amenhotep's wives, a Mitanni princess from Northern Syria (Mitanni), who was, according to the story, homesick. A modern romantic idea.
  • All of these features are being painstakingly restored to their original state. A web hoax called "Akhetaten will live again" that existed some years ago.

--JFK 13:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Surplus information?

Remains of a temple of Amun to the north of the palace, but still in the complex, have been found. This temple would have been where the pharaoh would perform the morning rights to the sun god, when he was unable to do so at the main temple to Amun at Karnak on the East Bank, which would be quite often. A whole staff of priests and priestesses would have managed the temple, and undoubtedly the priests would have managed farmland nearby to generate grain for the temple granaries.

Also, a "desert altar" on the outskirts of the ruins has been excavated. Today it appears as nothing more than a small mound of rubble, but probably would have been a large stone platform at the tip of stone steps where the pharaoh would offer gifts of food, wine, and goods to the gods. It is uncertain which god or gods this altar was dedicated to, but it is likely that it also was dedicated to Amen, the chief god, and Amenhotep's patron. It could have also been built for Amen's wife, Mut, or son, Khonsu.

How the cult of Amen was performed and how the temple estates were organized is a bit off-topic, in my opinion. --JFK 14:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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