Egypt
Much of the wood of the coffin panels has been consumed by termites, leaving little more than the brittle layer of paint itself. The conservation of this material, by professional conservators, has begun and will be pursued during the Amarna season that has just started.
To aid the work, we have recently launched an appeal on the Amarna Justgiving website:
http://www.justgiving.com/Amarna-Project2
Donation is easy, and the Gift-Aid element is automatically handled.
Please, if you can, help this project to succeed.
2) A specialist tour of the Nile Valley and Delta, with full day visit to Amarna, to run between December 1st and 14th, 2012, is now taking bookings.
It is organised by Far Horizons (Archaeological and Cultural Trips, Inc) and Barry Kemp will be the accompanying specialist. Go to the website:
http://www.farhorizons.com/trips/EgyptAfrica/UndiscoveredEgypt/TravelwithBobBrieronUndiscoveredEgypt.php
3) The new season has begun
The last season at Amarna - seeing further excavation at the cemetery - continued until the very end of 2011. After a break of nearly three months the expedition has resumed. The fieldwork is now at the site of the Great Aten Temple, fully excavated in 1932 but left unprotected. The aims are to clear it of debris, including rubbish dumped from the nearby village, to record afresh what is left, and to begin to mark the most prominent features in fresh brick and stone; this last in the hope of halting the steady advance of the village cemetery which now threatens to engulf the site. The first day of work was yesterday.
More news soon.
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Support the work of the Amarna Project at:
http://www.justgiving.com/Amarna-Project2
- The Latest Amarna Update From Anna Stevens And Barry Kemp
Amarna, Autumn 2012 Fundraising news: the Big Give Christmas Challenge We are delighted to report that we have reached the 'Œpledge target' for the Big Give Christmas Challenge appeal in support of conservation work at the Great Aten Temple....
- Amarna Fund Raising - The Big Give Christmas Challenge
Thanks to your support, the JustGiving appeal to raise money for the next stage of the conservation of the Amarna Period coffins from the recent excavations has reached its target. The conservators will resume their work at Amarna in the latter part of...
- Amarna Field School And News
www.amarnatrust.com and www.amarnaproject.com Update by Barry Kemp, 4 March 2012: FIELD SCHOOL As a follow-on from last year's Amarna field school, we are holding another this year, between October 14th and November 22nd (five weeks). Again it will...
- Fundraising For Amarna's Monastic History
JustGiving The Amarna Project has another fundraising project up and running on the JustGiving website. they are trying to raise £1500.00, which seems entirely reasonable. So far they have raised £210.00. Many small donations add up just as quickly...
- In The Field: Interview With Barry Kemp Re Amarna
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) “There is no other site like it,” states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project – the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived...
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Amarna News
Amarna news by Barry Kemp
1) Conservation appeal
One of the successful results of the excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna has been the recovery of substantial parts of three decorated coffins and fragments from a fourth. Their decoration is a rare record of funerary beliefs held by the non-elite inhabitants of Amarna.
1) Conservation appeal
One of the successful results of the excavations at the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna has been the recovery of substantial parts of three decorated coffins and fragments from a fourth. Their decoration is a rare record of funerary beliefs held by the non-elite inhabitants of Amarna.
Much of the wood of the coffin panels has been consumed by termites, leaving little more than the brittle layer of paint itself. The conservation of this material, by professional conservators, has begun and will be pursued during the Amarna season that has just started.
To aid the work, we have recently launched an appeal on the Amarna Justgiving website:
http://www.justgiving.com/Amarna-Project2
Donation is easy, and the Gift-Aid element is automatically handled.
Please, if you can, help this project to succeed.
2) A specialist tour of the Nile Valley and Delta, with full day visit to Amarna, to run between December 1st and 14th, 2012, is now taking bookings.
It is organised by Far Horizons (Archaeological and Cultural Trips, Inc) and Barry Kemp will be the accompanying specialist. Go to the website:
http://www.farhorizons.com/trips/EgyptAfrica/UndiscoveredEgypt/TravelwithBobBrieronUndiscoveredEgypt.php
3) The new season has begun
The last season at Amarna - seeing further excavation at the cemetery - continued until the very end of 2011. After a break of nearly three months the expedition has resumed. The fieldwork is now at the site of the Great Aten Temple, fully excavated in 1932 but left unprotected. The aims are to clear it of debris, including rubbish dumped from the nearby village, to record afresh what is left, and to begin to mark the most prominent features in fresh brick and stone; this last in the hope of halting the steady advance of the village cemetery which now threatens to engulf the site. The first day of work was yesterday.
More news soon.
--
Support the work of the Amarna Project at:
http://www.justgiving.com/Amarna-Project2
- The Latest Amarna Update From Anna Stevens And Barry Kemp
Amarna, Autumn 2012 Fundraising news: the Big Give Christmas Challenge We are delighted to report that we have reached the 'Œpledge target' for the Big Give Christmas Challenge appeal in support of conservation work at the Great Aten Temple....
- Amarna Fund Raising - The Big Give Christmas Challenge
Thanks to your support, the JustGiving appeal to raise money for the next stage of the conservation of the Amarna Period coffins from the recent excavations has reached its target. The conservators will resume their work at Amarna in the latter part of...
- Amarna Field School And News
www.amarnatrust.com and www.amarnaproject.com Update by Barry Kemp, 4 March 2012: FIELD SCHOOL As a follow-on from last year's Amarna field school, we are holding another this year, between October 14th and November 22nd (five weeks). Again it will...
- Fundraising For Amarna's Monastic History
JustGiving The Amarna Project has another fundraising project up and running on the JustGiving website. they are trying to raise £1500.00, which seems entirely reasonable. So far they have raised £210.00. Many small donations add up just as quickly...
- In The Field: Interview With Barry Kemp Re Amarna
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) “There is no other site like it,” states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project – the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived...