Great Aten Temple restoration, 2014

2014 restoration season at the Great Aten Temple
A period of restoration work at the Great Aten Temple is shortly to begin, marking the beginning of fieldwork at Amarna for 2014. Click here to read more on the work at the GAT.

New publication on the Workmen's Village plant remains

New publication on the Workmen's Village plant remains
The Archaeology of African Plant Use, just published, contains a chapter on the plant remains from the Amarna Workmen's Village by Chris Stevens and Alan Clapham: an important contribution to the study of the environmental history and ancient foodways of Amarna

The Sun Temple of Nefertiti: Sex and Death

The Sun Temple of Nefertiti: Sex and Death
Dr Jacquelyn Williamson's recent lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on the Kom el-Nana sun temple of Nefertiti is now available on Youtube - click here to view!

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.