In 2014 and 2017 new excavations took place at workshop M50.14-16 in the southern city of Amarna under the direction of Anna Hodgkinson (Amarna Project). The site was excavated as early as 1922 by a team from the Egypt Exploration Society led by Charles Leonard Woolley and only superficially documented and published.
The new excavations revealed numerous small finds, which provide important clues to domestic activities as well as to the industries carried out in the workshop, such as glass and metal processing, faience production and the processing of agate. Hundreds of partly unfinished beads and other pieces of jewellery made of glass, faience and agate indicate that these were produced in the work yard to the south of the two houses.
Since 2018 (and since 2020 as part of a project funded by the German Research Foundation), the finds and archaeological remains are being evaluated and prepared for publication. Archaeological experiments on glass bead production and chemical analyses have already provided essential information regarding Amarna's glass and metal industries.
You can find more information about this project at the following link: https://www.amarnaproject.
