What is the future for Amarna's mudbrick heritage?

As climate change begins to be felt across northern Africa, a pressing question is how mudbrick heritage will be affected by more extreme, unpredictable weather. At the Amarna Project, we are taking the first steps towards incorporating climate perspectives into our research, asking how Amarna’s extensive sample of mudbrick buildings might offer data on this problem. Our developing methodology is first to assess how Amarna’s mudbrick buildings have been affected by environmental processes to date through survey, archival research, and community engagement, and then to consider how digital modelling might offer a tool for tracking and predicting ongoing climate impacts. This paper introduces this work.

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Dr Anna Stevens

Monash University,, and Cambridge University

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