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!