Egypt
Barry Kemp awarded a CBE
Egypt Exploration Society
Many congratulations to Professor Barry Kemp of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, and Director of the EES excavations at Amarna from 1977 until 2008, who was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 'for services to archaeology, education and international relations'.
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Amarna Fund Raising Tour
Friends of the Petrie (Lucia Gahlin) Amarna at sunset. Photograph by Lucia Gahlin I don't advertise tours, but this one is organized by the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to raise funds for the Amara Project (under the directorship...
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Sad News: Dr John Alexander
McDonald Institute Fellows and Members will be saddened to hear of the death, on Monday 16th August, of Dr John Alexander, aged 88. Previously a student at Pembroke College, he had been a Fellow of St John's College since 1976 and was a former Lecturer...
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Lecture Tour: Bss In Egypt - Exploring Amarna
As usual I'm using my owner's rights to break my own rules and plug a tour/lecture meeting. operated by Lucia Gahlin and the Bloomsbury Summer School. This one is a bit special partly because over 50% of the profit is going to the Amarna Trust....
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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...
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Professor Barry Kemp At The Rom
Professor Barry Kemp the director of the Amarna trust has been excavating at Tell el Amarna in middle Egypt since 1977. The sites name in antiquity was Akhetaten, the home of Akhenaten the heritic pharaoh who ruled the two lands in the middle of the...
Egypt