ity and the temple lay in ruins for many years. Barry Kemp is currently rebuilding the city of El Amarna (Wilkinson 2000: 242). From what he has discovered the Aten temple was a huge building. The size was 426 feet and 6 inches long and 656 feet long a much bigger temple (Wilkinson 2000: 164). The floor plan of the temple is not yet known so they only guess about the temple (Wilkinson 2000: 164).The temple may have been an open temple, for his worship of the sun (Wilkinson 2000:164). The temple was largely empty due to the large open- air design (Wilkinson 2000: 140). Around the temple there were 32-foot high square sandstone fillior colonnade (Wilkinson 2000: 164. On the south side of the temple against each pillar is a statue of Akhenaten (Wilkinson 2000: 164). They are reconstructing the temple (Wilkinson 2000:164).There were several other structures next to the temple that he built. The first one was the River Temple (Wilkinson 2000: 141). Which was next to the river go figure they are not sure why they built the temple (Wilkinson 2000: 141). With the work done on it was done after the Amarna Period (Wilkinson 2000: 141). 75 meters to the southeast next to the Amun complex is the Temple C (Wilkinson 2000: 141). The C in it is for Champollion who discovered the Bentresh Stela, which is now in the Louvre in Paris (Wilkinson 2000: 165). Located in the southern area of Akhenaten is the Maru Temple or viewing temple (Wilkinson 2000: 141). The royal family may have layed out in the sun here (Wilkinson 2000: 141). It had gardens and walkways and pools in it (Wilkinson 2000: 141).Again the purpose of this temple is unknown and the site know longer exists (Wilkinson 2000:141). The thing we get from this is he was really trying to build a great area in the desert. I do not think he was aware that it would be abandoned after he died. Akenaten was a very interesting ruler. He changed and turned upside down what Egypt h...
