There’s also evidence of working life here, from a bakery (complete with ovens) to a workshop containing mud bricks for building temples and tombs, as well as casting molds used to create amulets. But one of the most mysterious discoveries at Aten was a human skeleton, found “with arms outstretched to his side, and remains of a rope wrapped around his knees.”

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