Amarna Reports online

Amarna Reports online
With the cooperation of the EES, the six-volume Amarna Reports series is being gradually uploaded to our 'downloadable resources' page. We hope you enjoy having access to this fundamental series of publications on the excavations at Amarna in the 1980s and 1990s.

ARCE Amarna lecture in Chicago

ARCE Amarna lecture in Chicago
Hear Dr Kristin Thompson talk on her project to identify sculptors' workshops at Amarna in an ARCE lecture at the Oriental Institute in Chicago on January 4th. Free and open to all!

Lecture on Kom el-Nana
Dr Jacquelyn Williamson will be lecturing on 'New Discoveries at Kom el-Nana: Funerary Aspects of the Sunshade of Nefertiti' at the Egyptian Museum, Berlin, on December 3 (7pm, Brugsch-Pascha-Saal, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2-8). All welcome!

Nefertiti at Kom el-Nana

Nefertiti at Kom el-Nana
Click here to read about Dr Jacquelyn Williamson's ongoing project to reconstruct the wall reliefs from the shrine of Nefertiti at Kom el-Nana, and the potential role of the queen as fertility goddess, in the Harvard Gazette.

Amarna lecture in Cambridge

Amarna lecture in Cambridge
There will be a lecture on the excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna in Cambridge on Wed. 6 November, as part of the Egyptian Worlds Seminar Series.

2013 digitisation season

Digitising the Amarna objects
For the month of October a team of volunteers is working out of the Amarna office in Cairo on a project to digitise the object record cards from the British excavations at Amarna - we hope to share the results online in the not-too-distant future!

Lecture on the Amarna cemetery

Amarna Cemetery lecture in Carbondale
Dr Gretchen Dabbs will be lecturing on 'The lives of the non-elite citizenry at the ancient Egyptian capital of Akhenaten and Nefertiti' for the National Parks Service on October 17, at Longbranch Coffeehouse (100 E Jackson St, Carbondale, IL). All welcome!

Hairstyles of the people of Amarna

Hairstyles of the people of Amarna
Click here for a photoset from Jolanda Bos' ongoing study of the hairstyles surviving on human remains from the South Tombs Cemetery.

Reports on the 2013 South Tombs Cemetery excavations

South Tombs Cemetery 2013 reports
Preliminary reports on the 2013 excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery are now available online.

Amarna lecture in Toronto

SSEA Toronto: lecture by Barry Kemp
SSEA Toronto will be hosting a lecture by Prof. Barry Kemp on Thu. 19 September: click here for details! Proceeds of the event will support the ROM and the Amarna Trust.

Amarna temples: lecture in Denver, September 16

Amarna lecture in Denver
Prof. Barry Kemp will be lecturing on the temples of Amarna at the Egypt Study Center in Denver on September 16. Click here for details.

Amarna ARCE Study Day in Orange County

Amarna Study Day with Barry Kemp
Join Prof. Barry Kemp for an Amarna Study Day at the American Research Center in Egypt, Orange County Branch, on September 14. Click here for more details.

Toe rings from the Amarna cemetery!

Ancient Egyptian toe rings!
Some coverage of finds from recent excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna.

Big Give raffle in support of restoration of the Great Aten Temple

Big Give raffle
Join the Big Give online raffle to support restoration of the Great Aten Temple at Amarna, and go in the draw to win cash prizes, or a luxury holiday! Click here for more.

USAID grant for conservation of Amarna coffins

USAID grant for conservation of Amarna coffins
The Amarna Project has recently been awarded USAID funding, through ARCE's Antiquities Endowment Fund, to continue crucial conservation work on the decorated coffins from the South Tombs Cemetery. Click here to view photos of the conservation work to date.

The 2013 Bioarchaeology Fieldschool
Is currently underway - and you can view some photos of the work by clicking here!

What's it like to dig at Amarna?

What's it like to dig at Amarna?
Click here to read one archaeologist's experiences excavating at the South Tombs Cemetery, in a blogpost for the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

PhD studentship for Amarna and Amara West

PhD studentship on colour use at Amara West and Amarna
A fully funded Phd studentship to study colour in vernacular architecture at Amarna and Amara West, at the BM and UCL, has just been announced. Click here for details.

South Tombs Cemetery 2013

2013 South Tombs Cemetery excavations
The 2013 season of excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery is now underway - click here to view some photos of the work!

New monograph on Roman glassware and pottery

New Amarna monograph
We are delighted to announce the publication of Jane Faiers' new monograph on Late Roman glassware and pottery from Kom el-Nana, now available for purchase on the EES online shop.

New article on South Tombs Cemetery excavations

New article on South Tombs Cemetery excavations
The latest issue of Antiquity, just out, contains an article summarising the results of recent excavations at Amarna, 'Life, death and beyond in Akhenaten's Egypt: Excavating the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna'.

2013 Spring season underway

2013 Spring season
The 2013 Spring season of fieldwork is now underway, with a program that includes repair work to the Great Aten Temple and the final season of excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery.