Funerary landscapes of Amarna, Thebes and Memphis at the context of the Amarna reform
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Amarna, Memphis, Thebes, Landscape, FuneraryAbstract
Religious reform and its execution, as corollary of a process whose object was the centralization of political power, caused modifications before, during and after Akhenaten period. The reform process resulted in the moved of the cult capital to Amarna during the kingship of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten). The restoration initiated by Tutankhamun should be considered a reorganization caused by the changes previously made. This paper proposes to analyze the use of spaces, focusing on the funeral landscapes, we think that the necropolis of Amarna, Thebes and Memphis show differences, but marked continuities with respect to the previous periods too.
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