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.