Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive ...
representative on the excavations then being undertaken by the legendary but dour Flinders Petrie – soon to be appointed to Britain's first chair in Egyptology at University College London. El-Amarna was to give Carter his first taste ...
It is a story about hate and love, despair and hope, but more than that it is the story of extraordinary spiritual and psychic powers being tested to their limits.
We may never know, but one thing is for sure, the mystery of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his family will endure for eternity. In this book, we will cover, ever so briefly, the life of Akhenaten, the Son of the Sun.
The story of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, King and Queen of Egypt during the magnificent Eighteenth dynasty.
Akhenaten single-handedly altered Egypt more on its own than it would be changed until outside Greek influence took over.
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history.
In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign ...
Akhenaten: A Historian's View examines what scholars have said over the years regarding key aspects of Akhenaten and his times ('the Amarna Period'), to produce a 'history of histories, ' exploring exactly how various chains of arguments ...
All this is interwoven with the authors’ own ideas. The primary goal of the author was not to convince the reader of the truth of the story, but to develop an interesting and credible story.
It is a story about hate and love, despair and hope, but more than that it is the story of extraordinary spiritual and psychic powers being tested to their limits. Akhenaten: Son of the Sun is part of Moyra Caldecott's magnificent ...
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