Amarna is an extensive Egyptianarchaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established and built by the PharaohAkhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and abandoned shortly after his death (1332 BC). The name for the city employed by the ancient Egyptians is written as Akhetaten (or Akhetaton—transliterations vary) in English transliteration. Akhetaten means "Horizon of the Aten".