Amarna Sunset. Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation.

Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben. Sonst ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed. Otherwise a very good and clean copy. - 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 BCE. 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 jointpharaoh 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. Aidan Dodson is a senior research fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK, where he teaches Egyptology. He is the author and co-author of eleven books, including Monarchs of the Nile (AUG Press, 2000) and The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, with Salima Ikram (AUC Press, 2008). 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 Notes Appendices Chronology of Ancient Egypt Relative Chronology of Egyptian and Foreign Kings of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Dynasties Royal Names of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty Tentative Genealogy of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty. ISBN 9789774163043