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Amarna Project, Horizon Newsletter Winter 2010
Horizon issue 8, Winter 2010, is now available on the Amarna Project website above (PDF). Earlier newsletters can be found on the Amarna news page. With photos, diagrams and maps.
Five seasons of work at the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna have now taken place. More are planned, the next scheduled to begin towards the end of February, 2011. Snapshots of findings have been regularly included in previous issues of Horizon. This issue contains more general reflections, on spiritual belief and on physical wellbeing.
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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...
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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...
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Work To Resume At Amarna
Barry Kemp has sent out the following email update regarding work at Amarna. The marvellous Amarna Project website can be found at: http://www.amarnaproject.com/ The rapid easing of the tension that developed in Egypt as the demonstrations began on January...
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Online Resources From The Amarna Project
Amarna Project I was looking at the superb Amarna Project website to see if they have a dig diary (they don't) and found that they have a downloadable resources page with newsletters in PDF format up until 2010 and a set of really helpful guide books...
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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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