Tell El-Amarna, 2014–15

Abstract

Three separate field projects were undertaken between late 2014 and early 2015. The first was a re-examination of a small workshop in the southern part of the city first located by the EES in 1922. The second was a further period of re-examination of the front part of the Great Aten Temple. The results add to the sense of disconnection from the cult of the Aten as portrayed in the tomb pictures. The third is a new venture, the excavation of a cemetery of the Amarna period towards the northern end of the site, where the purpose is to broaden the basis for understanding the factors which bore on the lives of the inhabitants of the city.