In the workshop of an ancient Egyptian sculptor. The estate of the chief royal sculptor Thutmose at Akhet-Aten - Amarna

In 1912, the excavation team of the Deutsch Orient-Gesellschaft under the direction of Ludwig Borchardt revealed the exceptional remains of the estate and workshop of the royal sculptor Thutmose, who worked in the middle of the 15th century BCE for Pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter’s new royal residence of Akhet-Aten (modern Amarna), in Middle Egypt. Next to the world-famous bust of Nefertiti, the German excavators unearthed a collection of plaster portrait studies that allow to foray into the creative process of a named artist of ancient Egypt—and thus to reconstruct the creation procedure of ancient Egyptian portraits as well as the technique used to ensure the consistency of royal portraiture in ancient Egypt—but also to investigate his relations and interactions with his fellow citizens in the city of Akhet-Aten.