South Tombs Cemetery excavations 2011

South Tombs Cemetery excavations 2011
The 2011 season of excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery is now underway - click here to view some photos of the work!

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project
Your Journey Travel is offering a trip to Egypt in early 2012 that will include visits to all the major monuments of Egypt, along with a private tour of Amarna with Barry Kemp - and a proportion of each ticket cost will be donated to the Amarna Trust. Click here for details!

North Palace Repairs 2011

North Palace Repairs 2011
We are delighted to announce that the 2011 season of repair work at the North Palace is currently underway, and will run until mid-November. Financial support for the work came via a fundraising campaign through Justgiving: many thanks to everyone who donated, whether a few pounds or many. Some photos of the work can be viewed by clicking here.

Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society

Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
Many thanks to the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society for their recent donation in support of a project to digitise the Amarna Archive. Click here for more information on the Society, including their grant scheme and lecture schedule.

Latest issue of Horizon newsletter available for download

Horizon newsletter available for download
The latest issue of Horizon, the Amarna Project newsletter, is available for download. It is offered free-of-charge, but if you are able a small donation to the Amarna Trust will help us free-up funds to continue producing such resources. Donations to our current fundraising campaign (the Kom el-Nana Church Painting Project) can be made via Justgiving at the link to the left.

Barry Kemp talks about the work of the Amarna Project

Interview with Barry Kemp
Barry Kemp, Director of the Amarna Project, talks with Laura Ranieri of Your Journey Travel about the work of the Project in a video interview.

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project
Your Journey Travel is offering a trip to Egypt in early 2012 that will include visits to all the major monuments of Egypt, along with a private tour of Amarna with Barry Kemp - and a proportion of each ticket cost will be donated to the Amarna Trust. Click here for details!

AWT Amarna conference

Ancient World Tours Conference
Ancient World Tours is presenting a conference on Amarna in early September, which will help raise funds for the Amarna Trust. Speakers include Barry Kemp, Gillian Pyke, Kate Spence, Paul Nicholson, and more. Click here for details and bookings.

Update on Amarna Statuary Project

Work on the Amarna Statuary Project, 2006-2010
Dr Kristin Thompson gives an update on her project to record the statue fragments recovered from Amarna.

New research paper on the Stone Village

New research paper on the Stone Village
Key results from the Stone Village Survey, conducted from 2005-9, are presented in the latest issue of the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Bioarchaeology study season underway

Bioarchaeology study season underway
Due to security concerns, the program of excavation and restoration at Amarna scheduled for Spring 2011 has been suspended. We are happy to report, however, that a short study season will be held - a team of bioarchaeologists from the Universities of Arkansas and Southerns Illinois have just arrived on site, and will spend the next 4 weeks studying the human remains from the South Tombs Cemetery.

New fundraising campaign

New Fundraising Campaign
The Amarna Project has just launched a fundraising campaign for the publication of church paintings from the 5th-7th century monastery at Kom el-Nana. Any support very gratefully received - no donation is too small.

Amarna features in ZDF television program

Amarna features in ZDF television program
Just aired on ZDF television in Germany, a new program on Akhenaten's reign: Im Zeichen des Sonnengottes. Towards the end is some footage of last year's excavations at Amarna.

ARCE Annual Meeting

ARCE Annual Meeting
Several members of the Amarna Project will be presenting the results of their research at the upcoming ARCE Annual Meeting, to be held in Chicago over 1-3 April.

Looting of the Egyptian Museum

Amarna artefacts missing from Egyptian Museum
The Amarna Project Team is deeply saddened by the loss of a number of priceless artefacts from Amarna during the recent looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. We call upon the international community of researchers, museum professionals and collectors for their support and vigilance in seeing these pieces returned.

North Palace fundraising

We are delighted to announce that our fundraising campaign for restoration work at the North Palace this Spring has reached its target amount - and extend sincere thanks to all who have supported this campaign.

Amarna lecture in Munich

Amarna lecture in Munich
Barry Kemp will be presenting a short lecture on Amarna at a workshop entitled 'Sickness, Hunger, War and Religion - from the Perspectives of Archaeology, History and Anthropology' at Ludwig-Maximilians University over 4-5 March.

2010 field report in JEA

JEA 96
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology for 2010 - just out - includes a 30-page report on last year's fieldwork at Amarna, which saw major excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery and the final field season of the Panehesy Church Project.

Horizon 8

Horizon 8
The latest issue (no. 8) of Horizon, the newsletter of the Amarna Trust, is now available for download. It is offered free of charge. But if you are able, a donation to the Trust - no matter how small - would be greatly appreciated.

North Palace fundraising

North Palace fundraising
Thanks to everyone who has supported our campaign to raise funds for repair work at the North Palace this Spring. We now have half the funding we need, but time is running out. Please take the time to visit our fundraising page at the link to the left, and help us to look after Amarna's ancient buildings.

Theatre performance/fundraising event

Fundraising event
The Alternative Theatre of Manhattan is dedicating the February 19 performance of its play ANKHST, at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City, to supporting the work of the Amarna Project - all proceeds that evening will be donated to the Amarna Trust.

Geophysics Field School underway

Geophysics Field School underway
The inaugural Amarna Geophysics Field School, jointly run by UCLA and the University of Arkansas, has just begun. A group of students are spending six weeks at Amarna learning about ground-based remote sensing technologies, and will apply these especially to the North City, where much of the ancient ground plan is yet to be retrieved.