Fortress with simple battlemented enclosure. Tell el-Amarna, Egypt

"The simpliest type of fort features a single vertical enclosure battlemented and opening through a central or side doorway. The top of the wall runs at one straight horizontal level, with semicircular, triangular, or rectangular (Armana) battlements, while bastions, probably rising at the corners, have cantilever machicolation. The police posts and keeps at Armana are of this type." [Badawi A., 1968: A History of Egyptian Architecture. University of California Press]. "Amarna was a short-lived city of upper Egypt; capital of King Akhenaton. It was built ca. 1375 BCE, but abandoned soon after when court was forced to return to Thebes." [The J.P.Getty Fund: Thesaurus of Geographic Names]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was working on "The Nile" project and traveled to Africa from March 14, 1961 to March 31, 1961, visiting Egypt.