Akhenaten (Part 3): Revelation of a Religion.
Soon after he came to power, Amunhotep IV (later Akhenaten) began to reveal his unique vision of god and the world. A remarkable amount of evidence survives for this crucial period: from a royal speech, magnificent temples at Karnak and a massive artistic shift, the King revealed his strange and fascinating ideas...
- Time period: c.1361 BCE (regnal year 2)
- King: Amunhotep IV (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re)
- Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten Neferet-iti)
- Locations: Waset (Thebes); Gebel el-Silsila
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- Music: Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com
- Music: Derek & Brandon Fiechter https://dbfiechter.bandcamp.com/
Select Bibliography:
- ATP – Smith and Redford, Akhenaten Temple Project, 1976.
- Dorothea Arnold, Lyn Green and James Allen, The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, 1999 (MetMuseum).
- Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.
- Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of ancient Egypt, 2010.
- Earl L. Ertman, “Images of Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti in the Style of the Previous Reign,” in Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, 2009 (Google Books).
- James K. Hoffmeier, Akhenaten & the Origins of Monotheism, 2015.
- Donald B. Redford, “A Royal Speech From the Blocks of the Tenth Pylon,” Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 3 (1981).
- Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1987.
- Lise Manniche, The Akhenaten Colossi at Karnak, 2010.
- William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
- Ray Winfield Smith and Donald B. Redford, The Akhenaten Temple Project: Initial Discoveries, 1976.
- Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti’s Face: Creation of an Icon, 2018.
- Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
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