Latest issue of Horizon newsletter available for download

Horizon newsletter available for download
The latest issue of Horizon, the Amarna Project newsletter, is available for download. It is offered free-of-charge, but if you are able a small donation to the Amarna Trust will help us free-up funds to continue producing such resources. Donations to our current fundraising campaign (the Kom el-Nana Church Painting Project) can be made via Justgiving at the link to the left.

Barry Kemp talks about the work of the Amarna Project

Interview with Barry Kemp
Barry Kemp, Director of the Amarna Project, talks with Laura Ranieri of Your Journey Travel about the work of the Project in a video interview.

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project

Tour Egypt and support the Amarna Project
Your Journey Travel is offering a trip to Egypt in early 2012 that will include visits to all the major monuments of Egypt, along with a private tour of Amarna with Barry Kemp - and a proportion of each ticket cost will be donated to the Amarna Trust. Click here for details!

AWT Amarna conference

Ancient World Tours Conference
Ancient World Tours is presenting a conference on Amarna in early September, which will help raise funds for the Amarna Trust. Speakers include Barry Kemp, Gillian Pyke, Kate Spence, Paul Nicholson, and more. Click here for details and bookings.

Update on Amarna Statuary Project

Work on the Amarna Statuary Project, 2006-2010
Dr Kristin Thompson gives an update on her project to record the statue fragments recovered from Amarna.

New research paper on the Stone Village

New research paper on the Stone Village
Key results from the Stone Village Survey, conducted from 2005-9, are presented in the latest issue of the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Bioarchaeology study season underway

Bioarchaeology study season underway
Due to security concerns, the program of excavation and restoration at Amarna scheduled for Spring 2011 has been suspended. We are happy to report, however, that a short study season will be held - a team of bioarchaeologists from the Universities of Arkansas and Southerns Illinois have just arrived on site, and will spend the next 4 weeks studying the human remains from the South Tombs Cemetery.