🧿 Amarna Tomb 8

Amarna Tomb 8 or TA8 was one of the Tombs of the Nobles located in the area of ancient Akhetaten, today known as Amarna, the capital desired and built by the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty. The city was abandoned about 30 years after its foundation; the tombs were abandoned and partly reused in modern times as hermitages of Coptic monks. The millenary abandonment and the damage caused by human presence have often made the original structures unrecognizable and heavily damaged, if not made illegible, and the same scenario occurred to the tomb pictorial scenes and wall reliefs.