Visitor guides

Resources for those planning a visit to Amarna:

Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten is a fully illustrated guidebook for Amarna, available for purchase internationally in English or Arabic. Written by members of the Amarna Project, and with contributions from local heritage managers and community members, the guidebook is designed to let the visitor experience Amarna with an ‘archaeologist’s eye’.

Copies of the guidebook can be purchased here: English / Arabic

All author royalties from sales of the book are donated to the Amarna Trust to support public engagement programmes at Amarna. Free copies of the Arabic guidebook are also being given to schools and cultural institutions in Middle Egypt.

pdf downloads

The guidebook incorporates information from a series of earlier pdf guides to Amarna’s Central City and rock-cut tombs compiled by Barry Kemp. These pdfs can be downloaded below.