{"id":173849,"date":"2010-01-13T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-34594791187283847"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:28:56","slug":"in-the-field-interview-with-barry-kemp-re-amarna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/173849","title":{"rendered":"In the field:  Interview with Barry Kemp re Amarna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage-key.com\/egypt\/interview-barry-kemp-latest-findings-amarna-project?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hkdigest+%28Heritage+Key+Digest%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Heritage Key<\/a> (Malcolm Jack)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is no other site like it,\u201d states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project \u2013 the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital city of the \u201cheretic pharaoh\u201d Akhenaten (King Tut&#8217;s dad) in the 14th century BC. As a living site, Tell el-Amarna is perhaps unparalleled in all of Egypt in terms of scale, ready accessibility and quality of preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Barry Kemp \u2013 of the University of Cambridge \u2013 is the director of the Amarna Project, and also the chairman of the Amarna Trust, a UK registered charity which provides most of the funding for the project. Kemp has directed excavation and archaeological survey at Amarna for the Egypt Exploration Society since 1977, and is one of the world\u2019s leading authorities on the ill-fated ancient Egyptian city.<\/p>\n<p>It in a wide-ranging interview with Heritage Key, Kemp explains what makes Amarna so important, and details the history of excavations there. He also reveals the latest news on the construction of a brand new visitor centre at Amarna, and gives us a heads-up on plans for future investigations and study at the site.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-34594791187283847?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) \u201cThere is no other site like it,\u201d states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project \u2013 the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital city of the \u201cheretic pharaoh\u201d Akhenaten (King Tut&#8217;s dad) in the 14th century BC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}