Amarna Warrior Burial
Individual 59 from the South Tombs Cemetery, Tell al-Amarna, Egypt
Having looked at the political role, social position and living conditions of the Amarna royals, our next ‘object’ will take us lower down the social spectrum.
On the edge of the desert at Tell al-Amarna lies a cemetery of shallow burials scooped into the sand, where Amarna’s poorer people were buried in often unmarked graves, with only a few, if any, objects.
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