C Wayne Taylor Wrote:
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> Quote:Boundary Stelae
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>
> The sacred territory of Akhetaten comprised an arc
> of desert on the east of the Nile bounded by tall
> cliffs, a broad tract of agricultural land with
> villages across the river on the west, and a
> narrower strip of western desert in front of a low
> escarpment.
>
> ....Early in 2004, however, the earlier manner of
> destruction was returned to, and the entire stela
> and its statues were blown out of the hillside
> with quarry explosives. Many of the pieces were
> subsequently collected by the local inspectorate
> of the Supreme Council of Antiquities with a view
> to restoring it.

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