Editing Amarna (section)

===20th&nbsp;century excavations===
The copyist and artist [[N. de Garis Davies|Norman de&nbsp;Garis Davies]] published drawn and photographic descriptions of private tombs and boundary stelae from Amarna from 1903 to 1908. These books were republished by the EES in 2006.

In the early years of the 20th&nbsp;century (1907 to 1914) the [[Deutsche Orientgesellschaft]] expedition, led by [[Ludwig Borchardt]], excavated extensively throughout the North and South suburbs of the city. The famous bust of [[Nefertiti bust|Nefertiti]], now in Berlin's [[Neues Museum|Ägyptisches Museum]], was discovered amongst other sculptural artefacts in the workshop of the sculptor [[Thutmose (sculptor)|Thutmose]]. The outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]] in August&nbsp;1914 terminated the German excavations.

From 1921 to 1936 an Egypt Exploration Society expedition returned to excavation at Amarna under the direction of [[T. Eric Peet|T.E.&nbsp;Peet]], Sir&nbsp;[[Leonard Woolley]], [[Henri Frankfort]], [[Stephen Glanville]],<ref>Grundon(2007), p. 71</ref> and [[John Pendlebury]]. [[Mary Chubb]] served as the digs administrator. The renewed investigations were focused on religious and royal structures.

During the 1960s the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (now the [[Egypt]]ian [[Supreme Council of Antiquities]]) undertook a number of excavations at Amarna.