Tell el Amarna 2017
Last month I spent in Egypt, working on The Amarna Project. This archaeological excavation is uncovering a cemetery from the site Tell el-Amarna, the place where pharaoh Akhenaten built his capital 3300 years ago. The so-called North Tombs Cemetery (NTC, see image above for an impression of the location) that I worked on, is one of the six non-elite burial grounds in the wadis around Amarna. Here, 141 graves and 231 individuals have been recovered in the 2015 and 2017 excavat
