Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-reformation

by Aidan Dodson

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This is a new account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten's revolution. 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 9774163044
  • ISBN13 9789774163043
  • Publish Date 30 March 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 27 January 2021
  • Publish Country EG
  • Imprint The American University in Cairo Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English