Akhnaton’s lost population finally discovered
Posted On: Mar 1st, 2015 at 20:23
Egypt.
Staying in Africa, finding the long lost 30,000-strong population of Akhenaton’s city of El-Amarna has proved more difficult than archaeologists imagined. In 2001, however, the first signs of the looted cemeteries started to appear, and now a full map of the area has been made from extensive excavations.