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Workers of Amarna

These guys seem to be carrying bales of grain. Recently, Barry Kemp and his team excavated a lower class cemetery at Amarna. He found that the peasants of Amarna were worked hard and died unusually early.

To what can we attribute this? Perhaps to the burden of constructing a new city in only a few years, but then again, the Egyptians were no strangers to large projects.

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Uploaded on June 7, 2009
Taken on May 24, 2009