Amarna sunset : Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian counter-reformation / Aidan Dodson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodson, Aidan, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Akhenaton, King of Egypt.

Akhenaton.

Pharaohs--Biography.

Pharaohs.

Egypt--History--Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; MAPS; ABBREVIATIONS ANDCONVENTIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: SUNRISE; 1 - The Noonday Sun; 2 - The Waning Sun; 3 - The Northern Problem; 4 - The Living Image of Amun; 5 - The Zananzash Affair; 6 - God's Father to God; 7 - The Hawk in Festival; 8 - Sunset; NOTES; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-197) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781617970504

1617970506

9781936190195

1936190192

OCLC:

948378399