Egypt
- 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...
- Protecting Akhenaten's Boundary Stela
El Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With a good summary of the role and importance of the boundary stelae In 1906, one of these stelae was blown up and in 1989 it was rumoured that another of the stelae had deteriorated. However, as Mohamed Abdel-Fattah,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Exhibition: More About The Amarna Exhibtion At Upenn
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/amarna.html"In 1353 B.C., during the later 18th Dynasty, Amenhotep IV ascended the throne of Egypt. His rule was revolutionary in the sweeping changes he sought to impose on ancient Egyptian life and culture....
Egypt
Damage to Amarna stela?
There has been a discussion on EEF at the moment about the possible destruction of a boundary stone from Amarna. The confusion which has given rise to the discussion seems to come partly from the translation of Arabic news stories. A recent stoy in English on the Youm 7 website suggests that one of the 14 reliefs was destroyed by illegal dynamite quarrying some five months ago.
Thanks to EEF's Aayko Eyma for writing to Barry Kemp of the Amarna Project, who has replied to Aayko to say that there are two stelae which have been harmed. He says that Stela S was destroyed in 2004 and that Stela Q, already denuded of most of its decorated surface in the early 20th Century, was further damaged more recently. An undecorated section has been removed and Kemp says that although it is assumed that this was by human agency it is unclear how it was done.
Thanks to EEF's Aayko Eyma for writing to Barry Kemp of the Amarna Project, who has replied to Aayko to say that there are two stelae which have been harmed. He says that Stela S was destroyed in 2004 and that Stela Q, already denuded of most of its decorated surface in the early 20th Century, was further damaged more recently. An undecorated section has been removed and Kemp says that although it is assumed that this was by human agency it is unclear how it was done.
- 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...
- Protecting Akhenaten's Boundary Stela
El Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With a good summary of the role and importance of the boundary stelae In 1906, one of these stelae was blown up and in 1989 it was rumoured that another of the stelae had deteriorated. However, as Mohamed Abdel-Fattah,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Exhibition: More About The Amarna Exhibtion At Upenn
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/amarna.html"In 1353 B.C., during the later 18th Dynasty, Amenhotep IV ascended the throne of Egypt. His rule was revolutionary in the sweeping changes he sought to impose on ancient Egyptian life and culture....