Egypt
Nature (Jo Marchant)
- Interview With Barry Kemp Re Looting
New Scientist (Jo Marchant) A thriving market for antiquities in the west is behind the looting of Egypt's heritage, says Barry Kemp, who describes the fraught situation on the ground Where is your dig site? I work at Amarna, the short-lived capital...
- 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...
- Notes: Lost City Of The Pharaoh
This is not a formal review, but here are a few notes that I took whilst watching the BBC 2 programme Lost City of the Pharaoh, about recent finds at Amara, last night. If you want to see the programme you can see it FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS ONLY on your...
- Barry Kemp Talking About Amarna Burials
Timewatch: The Pharaoh's Lost City Just a brief note about a TV programme on UK's BBC 2 tonight at 2010 (The Pharaoh's Lost City). Barry Kemp was interviewed on BBC News 24 this morning, where he was talking about the discovery of a cemetery...
- Barry Kemp Lecture On Amarna In The U.s.
NWA News Archeologists and historians across the globe have been fascinated by such ancient civilizations as Pompeii for years. But there’s another ancient city, located about a half-day drive south of Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, whose mysteries...
Egypt
Archaeology meets politics: Spring comes to ancient Egypt
Nature (Jo Marchant)
In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sand. Wrapped in linen and rolled up in stiff mats made of sticks, they are little more than bones. But their ornate plaited hair styles and simple personal possessions help to reveal details about the individuals in each grave. The bodies date from around 3,300 years ago, when the Pharaoh Akhenaten renounced Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion and moved his capital to remote Amarna, to worship just one god: the Sun disc Aten.
The cemetery offers a window on a unique episode in Egyptian history, a revolution that some see as the birth of monotheism. Barry Kemp, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and director of the Amarna Project, has been working with his colleagues to excavate the skeletons, and says that they are starting to reveal “an alarming picture of a stressful life”. Many Amarnans died young, with retarded growth and signs of multiple injuries. Some young men had marks where their shoulder blades had been pierced, perhaps as part of a brutal ritual.
- Interview With Barry Kemp Re Looting
New Scientist (Jo Marchant) A thriving market for antiquities in the west is behind the looting of Egypt's heritage, says Barry Kemp, who describes the fraught situation on the ground Where is your dig site? I work at Amarna, the short-lived capital...
- 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...
- Notes: Lost City Of The Pharaoh
This is not a formal review, but here are a few notes that I took whilst watching the BBC 2 programme Lost City of the Pharaoh, about recent finds at Amara, last night. If you want to see the programme you can see it FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS ONLY on your...
- Barry Kemp Talking About Amarna Burials
Timewatch: The Pharaoh's Lost City Just a brief note about a TV programme on UK's BBC 2 tonight at 2010 (The Pharaoh's Lost City). Barry Kemp was interviewed on BBC News 24 this morning, where he was talking about the discovery of a cemetery...
- Barry Kemp Lecture On Amarna In The U.s.
NWA News Archeologists and historians across the globe have been fascinated by such ancient civilizations as Pompeii for years. But there’s another ancient city, located about a half-day drive south of Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, whose mysteries...