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LECTURE: Towards a Better Understanding of Amarna: Recent Research in the City and Its Main Cemetery

Date: Friday, November 4, 2010, 7:00pm (Public Reception), 7:30pm (Lecture)

Chapter: Memphis, Tennessee, in co-sponsorship with the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis.

Speaker: Barry Kemp, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (England) and Director of excavations at Tell el-Amarna

Location: Fountain View Room (350), University Center, University of Memphis.

Pay parking is available in the Zach Curlin Garage, next to the University Center.

For more information about the event, contact the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at (901) 678-2555, or visit http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/murnanelecture.php

Description: Dr. Kemp has excavated at the site of Tell el-Amarna - ancient Akhetaton, capital city of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaton - since 1977. This lecture will address his current work at the site. Dr. Kemp is the author of Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization and has published extensively on Egyptian society, history and religion.

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