For many the word "Amarna" conjures up visions of the city in which Nefertiti, one of the most beautiful women of the ancient world, lived in connubial bliss with her husband, the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh King Akhenaten. Armana was also the city in which Tutankhamun, today the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt, spend the first part of his childhood. Although Armana has become a byword for religious and artistic innovation, it is often difficult to disentangle myth from fact, speculation from reality. In this well-illustrated study, Barbara Watterson, one of the most accomplished of modern Egyptologists, discusses and brings up to date the many theories that abound about the period.
- ISBN10 0752425153
- ISBN13 9780752425153
- Publish Date 1 March 2002 (first published 1 September 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The History Press Ltd
- Imprint NPI Media Group
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English