Amarna sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian counter-reformation

This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century bc. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the ki...

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Main Author: Dodson, Aidan 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cairo American University in Cairo Press 2009
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Online Access:BSB01
Summary:This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century bc. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner on Egypt's throne, and the accession of three army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharoah in turn with both her husband Akhenaten and her son. As such, she was herself instrumental in beginning the return to orthodoxy, undoing her erstwhile husband's life-work before her own mysterious disappearance
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-197) and index
The noonday sun -- The waning sun -- The Northern problem -- The living image of Amun -- The Zananzash Affair -- God's Father to God -- The hawk in festival -- Sunset
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 207 Seiten) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781936190195
1936190192
9781617970504
1617970506

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