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"Towards a Better Understanding of Amarna:
Recent Research in the City and Its Main Cemetery."
 Barry Kemp, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge (England) and
Director of excavations at Tell el-Amarna will present a free public lecture on the
evening of Thursday, November 4, 2010.
Dr. Kemp has excavated at the site of Tell el-Amarna - ancient Akhetaton, capital city of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaton and his beautiful
queen Nefertiti - since 1977. In recent years, Dr. Kemp and his team have completed
the topographic survey of the desert behind the city and the study of material excavated
from a group of houses in the Main City, as well as several seasons of excavation
at the city's main cemetery, and a study of the human remains. On Thursday evening,
November 4th, Dr. Kemp will share with us the results of his most recent discoveries
and discuss what this new material reveals about the lives of the men and women who
lived in that ancient city.
 Lecture: 7:30 p.m.
Reception: 7:00 p.m.
Location: University Center, Fountain View room (350) and Fountain View lounge (346)
The University of Memphis Campus
The lecture and reception are
FREE and Open to the Public
Pay parking is available in the Zach Curlin Garage (PG-2 #3 on the parking map).
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Memphis Chapter of the American Research Center
in Egypt. To learn more about ARCE, click here.
Dr. Barry Kemp is an internationally known Egyptologist and lecturer. He is Professor
Emeritus of Egyptology in the Department of Oriental Studies and the McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research of University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also
the Director of the Amarna Project, and chairman of the Amarna Trust and has directed
the excavation and archaeological survey at Amarna for the Egypt Exploration Society
(London). Among Kemp's numerous field reports and publications is, including, Amarna Reports (Vol. 1-6) and Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. Perhaps best known for his work on the Amarna period, he has published widely on
ancient Egyptian society, history, and religion in various periods.
For more information about Dr. Kemp and his work at Tell el-Amarna, visit his web
site at: http://www.amarnaproject.com/
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