Gardens of Amarna by Barry Kemp 9 13 2020

Barry Kemp is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. He is known for directing excavations at Amarna in Middle Egypt. His widely renowned book Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation is a core text of Egyptology and Ancient History courses. Professor Kemp graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1962. He became a Lecturer there and until his retirement in 2007 a Professor. From 1977 until 2008, he has been the director of excavation and archaeological survey at Amarna for the Egypt Exploration Society. Professor Kemp continues his research of the Amarna Period as director of the Amarna Project and secretary of the Amarna Trust, which for the last 25 years has been financed in part through grants from The Amarna Research Foundation (TARF) . Dr. Kemp is interested in developing a holistic picture of Ancient Egyptian society rather than focusing on the elite culture that dominates the archaeological record.

Barry Kemp has contributed too many highly regarded and widely used Egyptology texts as well as being elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1992. He was appointed Commander of the British Empire in the 2011 for services to archaeology, education and international relations in Egypt. In 1990, Kemp was elected a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and in 2008, he became a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Gardens at Amarna

Gardens in ancient Egypt is a subject that has been written about since the 19th century. The main source material is twofold: pictures of gardens in tombs and temples, and actual plant remains preserved in tombs by desiccation, of which those from the tomb of Tutankhamun are the best known. Excavations at Amarna have, in addition, uncovered several gardens belonging to houses and palaces. Those discovered by the current Amarna expedition have also yielded plant remains which have been identified by archaeo-botanists. This evidence has a more direct story to tell of where gardens were to be found in a city, what they looked like and what was probably grown in them. Amongst the evidence presented in the lecture, drawing upon unpublished excavation records, is one of the buildings at Kom el-Nana (a building complex that belonged to Nefertiti) which had been provided with gardens. One learns that the Egyptian experience of gardens was not always quite what one expects.

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