The Southern Tomb Cemetery, the burial of low status individuals from the city of Akhenaten (the modern city of Amarna

Amarna

Amarna is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly–established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty , and abandoned shortly afterwards...

), is located close to the southern tombs of the Nobles.

Discovery

This cemetery, together with several other disturbed cemeteries, was discovered in 2007, by the continuing EES exploration discovered the cemetery, during the desert GPS survey.