Christmas Challenge 2012

2012 Christmas Challenge
We are delighted to announce the completion of the Big Give Christmas Challenge for 2012, which raised over 13,000 GBP for the conservation of the Great Aten Temple. We couldn't have hoped for a better result and are so grateful for your support. Best wishes to all for a wonderful 2013!

2012 South Tombs Cemetery excavations

2012 South Tombs Cemetery excavations
The 2012 season of excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery is now underway - click here to view some photos of the work!

Horizon Summer 2012

Horizon Summer 2012 issue
The latest issue of Horizon, newsletter of the Amarna Trust, is now available for download on our website.

2011 and 2012 bioarchaeology reports online

2011 and 2012 bioarchaeology reports online
Reports on the study of the human remains from the South Tombs Cemetery for 2011 and 2012 are now available online.

2012 Autumn season underway

2012 Autumnn season underway
The 2012 Autumn field season is now underway at Amarna. Amongst the work planned is excavation at the South Tombs Cemetery, and conservation of the coffins from this site. Visit our Facebook page for photos and updates on the season!

Reconstructing the Kom el-Nana reliefwork

Reconstructing the Kom el-Nana reliefwork
Read about Dr Jacquelyn Williamson's project to reconstruct the broken reliefwork from the shrines at Kom el-Nana in a new research page on our website - click here.

Fitzwilliam Museum Lecture

Fitzwilliam Museum Lecture
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is hosting a free public lecture, 'Trouble with termites – the conservation of painted wood coffins at Amarna, Egypt' by Julie Dawson on October 3. All welcome - click here for details.

Saving the Great Aten Temple

Saving the Great Aten Temple
The Amarna Trust has just launched an online matched-funding initiative via The Big Give for urgent restoration of the Great Aten Temple. Click here to learn more, or offer a pledge before mid-October. Donate online in the week beginning December 6 2012 and your donation could be doubled!

Article on Amarna and Tutankhamun

Article on Amarna and Tutankhamun
A brief article on Amarna and the mummy of Tutankhamun by Barry Kemp and Albert Zink appears in the latest issue of the journal Rachel Carson Center Perspectives, available for free download.

2013 Amarna Bioarchaeology Field School
Applications for the 2013 Bioarchaeology Field School at Amarna are closing August 1st. Click here for details

Amarna lectures at the Petrie Museum

Amarna lectures at the Petrie Museum
Join the Amarna Project's Dr Jacquelyn Williamson as she lectures on the Amarna Period to the Friends of the Petrie Museum on July 21st. Click here for details and booking!

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project
Not too late to sign up for the Your Journey Archaeology Alive tour of Egypt in September/October. The trip will include visits to all the major monuments of Egypt, along with a tour of Amarna - and a proportion of each ticket cost will be donated to the Amarna Trust. Click here for details!

2012 Spring Season underway

2012 Spring Season underway
The 2012 Spring season is currently underway at Amarna; to view some photographs of conservation work being undertaken on the coffins from the South Tombs Cemetery click here.

Geophysics Field School 2012

Geophysics Field School 2012
Just a few days left now to get applications in for the Geophysics Field School at Amarna in October/November. Click here for details.

Paleopathology Association and American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings

Paleopathology Association and American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings
Dr Gretchen Dabbs and Dr Melissa Zabecki will be presenting their research on the skeletal material from the South Tombs Cemetery at the upcoming meetings of the Paleopathology Association and American Association of Physical Anthropology in Portland, OR, in the week of April 8-15.

Amarna lecture in Berkeley

Amarna lecture in Berkeley
Dr Jacquelyn Williamson is giving a public lecture on the role of tradition in the Amarna Period on April 22, for ARCE at the University of California, Berkeley. Click here for details.

Tour Egypt with Barry Kemp

Tour Egypt with Barry Kemp
Far Horizons tour company is offering a 14 day tour of Egypt with Barry Kemp in December 2012, with a portion of the profits going to support the fieldwork at Amarna. Click here to find out more!

A new statuary workshop at Amarna?

A new statuary workshop at Amarna?
The latest volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology is just out, and includes a brief communication by Dr Kristin Thompson on a newly identified statuary workshop at Amarna.

Preserving the Amarna coffins

Preserving the Amarna coffins
An online fundraising campaign has just been launched to raise funds to preserve the decorated coffins recently excavated at the South Tombs Cemetery. Can you help us look after the Amarna coffins? No donation is too small - every little bit helps. Click here to offer your support, or to find out more.

Horizon newsletter available for download

Horizon newsletter
The latest issue of Horizon, newsletter of the Amarna Trust, is now available for download from the Trust website.

Cairo lecture

Cairo lecture
The Netherlands and Flemish Institute in Cairo is hosting a lecture on the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna on Thursday 22 March. Free entry, all welcome.

Bioarchaeology team awarded National Geographic Society Grant

Bioarchaeology team awarded National Geographic Society grant
We are delighted to announce the recent award of a National Geographic Society grant to Professor Jerry Rose (University of Arkansas) towards research on the theme ‘Epidemic Disease at Amarna, the Capital City of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh, Akhenaten’, including continued excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery in 2013. Many congratulations to the bioarchaeological team on their success.

2012 fieldschool in Archaeological Geophysics

2012 fieldschool in Archaeological Geophysics
A five-week Geophysics fieldschool will be held at Amarna in October/November 2012. Click here for details - applications close April 15th.

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project
Your Journey Travel has rescheduled their 2012 Archaeology Alive tour of Egypt to September/October. The trip will include visits to all the major monuments of Egypt, along with a tour of Amarna - and a proportion of each ticket cost will be donated to the Amarna Trust. Click here for details!

Alexandria lecture

Alexandria lecture
Barry Kemp is giving an EES/Bibliotheca Alexandrina lecture 'The City of Tell El-Amarna: its past and its future' in the auditorium at the Bibliotheca at 3pm on Tuesday 21 February. Free admission - all welcome.