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French
Jesuit priest Claude Sicard describes the first known boundary stela. |
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Napoleon's
scholars make the first map of Amarna. |
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Sir John
Gardiner Wilkinson explores and maps the city. |
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A
Prussian mission under the leadership of Richard Lepsius records monuments and topography. |
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An Amarna
woman discovers the cache of nearly four hundred clay tablets inscribed in
cuneiform--diplomatic correspondence from the fourteenth century B.C. |
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The Egypt
Exploration Fund of London undertakes the first scientific excavation of Amarna, under the
directorship of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. Petrie's work is primarily in the
Central City. |
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Norman de
Garis Davies publishes descriptions of Amarna's private tombs and boundary stelae, with
drawings and photographs. |
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The
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, under the leadership of Ludwig Borchardt, excavates the
North and South suburbs, including the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, where they find
the Nefertiti bust now at the Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin. |
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T.E.Peet,
Sir Leonard Woolley, Henri Frankfort, and J.D.S. Pendlebury, working for the Egypt
Exploration Society, focus on religious and royal structures. |
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The
Egyptian Antiquities Organization, now Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, excavates
at Amarna. |
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The Egypt
Exploration Society resumes work at Amarna under the leadership of Barry Kemp. In 1980, a
second mission, led by Geoffrey Martin, describes and copies reliefs from the Royal Tomb,
subsequently publishing its findings along with descriptions of objects believed to have
come from the tomb. |
