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Some Recent Excavations in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

S. R. K. Glanville*
Affiliation:
University of London

Extract

Aconcession to excavate the site of Tell el Amarna was given to the Egypt Exploration Society in 1920, and with the exception of two seasons the Society has sent an expedition there every year since that date. Beginning with the central town site, at the point where the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft had left it before the war, the work of the first two seasons was confined to the southern half of the city, although it included several important outlying buildings of a nondomestic character and the ‘Eastern Village’ of workmen’s houses. The discovery of the North Palace in 1923 turned the attention of the excavators to the distant end of the site, leading them to the building of a new house from which to work and to the discovery of other official buildings at the extreme north of the bay, and a group of houses connected with them. These last have not yet been completely excavated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1936

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References

* I cannot find confirmation of the statement which has often been made that a year-date 9 has been found on a vase from the tomb of Tutankhamen. If this were the case, both Hölscher's computations and my argument which follows would require modification

Second report on the Excavation, 1928