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.

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!