Anniversary Blog
In 2017, the Amarna Project celebrated 40 years of research at Amarna. Below you can read a series of blogposts written to mark this occasion by members of the research team:
November 5, 2017
Amarna has a rich post-New Kingdom history: Gillian Pyke gives a tour of its early Christian remains.
July 12, 2017
Some of the most interesting elements of the ancient city of Akhetaten lie around its desert fringes. Corinna Rossi recalls…
June 22, 2017
Amarna is renowned for its domestic archaeology. Anna Stevens reflects on the experience of excavating small houses in the Main…
June 9, 2017
Kom el-Nana, site of a solar shrine for Nefertiti, is one of the last surviving peripheral cult complexes of ancient…
April 13, 2017
Gretchen Dabbs outlines the aims and results of the ongoing study of human remains from the cemeteries of Amarna.
March 21, 2017
In the first of our anniversary blogs, Prof. Barry Kemp, Director of the Amarna Project, sits down for a question-and-answer session…
September 12, 2017
While famous for its decorated stonework talatat, Amarna was predominantly a mud-brick city. Richard Hughes outlines efforts to protect and…
May 27, 2017
The dig house at Amarna has a complicated history of its own! Barry Kemp explains:
May 12, 2017
Anna Garnett recalls her first trip to Amarna to study the pottery from the Stone Village and a memorable trip to the EES…
April 28, 2017
Anna Hodgkinson outlines her recent investigations into the suburban glass industry at Amarna.