In 1887, an Egyptian woman dug up mud bricks for fertiliser and found the lost letters of the Pharaohs

A chance discovery near the Nile River unearthed the Amarna Letters. These ancient clay tablets contain secret diplomatic ...
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Barry Kemp, Who Unearthed Insights About Ancient Egypt, Dies at 84

An archaeologist, he wrote widely on everyday life under the pharaohs and did much of his fieldwork at Amarna, considered the Egyptian version of Pompeii. By Clay Risen Barry Kemp, an archaeologist ...
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Birds Identified In Ancient Egyptian Mural 3300 Years After It Was Painted

This painting is a facsimile of a scene of marsh life that formed a continuous frieze in the so-called 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna. (Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965) and Norman ...

In 1887, an Egyptian woman dug for fertilizer in the ruins of Amarna and uncovered the lost diplomatic network of the Bronze Age

While searching for fertilizer in 1887, an Egyptian woman made a startling discovery: baked clay tablets that would come to ...
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A Review of Mid-Second Millennium B.C. Egyptian Glass Technology at Tell el-Amarna

Vandiver, Pamela B., Swann, C. P., and Cranmer, D. C. 1991. "A Review of Mid-Second Millennium B.C. Egyptian Glass Technology at Tell el-Amarna." In Materials Issues ...
Archaeology

Egyptian Coneheads

Egyptologists have long been puzzled by a type of figure in ancient Egyptian art depicted wearing an unusual kind of conical hat. These figures often appear in scenes depicting banquets, funerary ...