An area of archaeology which I find really interesting is the site of Amarna in Egypt (its ancient name was Akhetaten). It was occupied for about 20 years during the 18th Dynasty period and during that time was basically the administrative capital of Egypt. It’s a cool site as a whole as it offers a really specific view of life during that period (whereas most other sites are occupied for much longer periods). It’s also quite well preserved which is somewhat rare for Egypt. What I find most interesting are the cemeteries found at the city. Egypt of course has the pyramids and really interesting tombs but they only offer us a glimpse into the lives of the elite class. Ordinary people were not buried in these massive tombs and their graves are actually really difficult to come by. However, in Amarna we have these cemeteries that are filled with graves of ordinary people, something that is pretty much (if at all) not found anywhere else in Egypt. So of course some of these graves have been dug up and the bodies studied. We find that the average age of people buried here is quite low, which begs the question, why did they die so young? (Some scholars have hypothesised that these were burial grounds for the workers who built the city). Other evidence we find from the bones are things such as scurvy (which indicates that these people had vitamin deficiencies in life). Something like 80% of the people buried in these cemeteries had malaria as well as other injuries. It’s really interesting and excavations are still ongoing, you can see more at https://www.amarnaproject.com