Akhetatun
(Tel El Amarna currently) is an archeological site stretching on the east bank of the Nile , in
El Menia
Governorate . It is located about 58 km to the south of El
Minia
city and is regarded as one of the popular tourist attractions in Egypt . It contains the remains of the capital city built by the Pharaoh
Akhenaten
of the late
Eighteenth Dynasty
(c . 1353 BC) . 'Akhetatun' once meant the 'Horizon of the Aten' , who was the new sun god introduced by Amen-Hotep IV or Akhenaton . It was the cult for the worship of Aton , the sun god , and shortly after Akhenaten's death , the site was abandoned .
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