... of Akhetaten, now called Amarna, is a barren place surrounded by cliffs. According to Cyril Aldred, from the Nile the eastern cliffs look like the giant hieroglyph for "akhet" or "horizon" (1988). That the place so resembles the symbolic horizon, and that it is located very much in the center of Egypt may have been significant in Akhenaten's choice of this particular spot. Akhenaten made it quite ... is not known), and princess Meritaten was soon elevated to the position of Chief Queen and married to a mysterious figure called Smenkhkare or Ankhkheperure-Neferneferuaten, who apparently ...

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