Description de l'Égypte
The first western mention of the city was made in 1714 by Claude Sicard, a French Jesuit priest who was travelling through the Nile Valley, and described the boundary stela from Amarna. As with much of Egypt, it was visited by Napoleon's "corps de savants" in 1798–1799, who prepared the first detailed map of Amarna, which was subsequently published in "Description de l'Égypte" between 1821 and 1830.