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

Dodson, geboren am 11. September 1962 in London, studierte an der Langley Grammar School (1975–81), bevor er an das Collingwood College, Durham, wechselte (1981–2). Er erwarb einen BA an der University of Liverpool (1985) und einen MPhil (1986, Museum Practice and Archaeology) und PhD (1995, Ägyptologie) am Christ’s College, Cambridge. Er lehrte seit Oktober 1996 an der University of Bristol und war von Januar bis Juli 2013 Simpson-Professor für Ägyptologie an der American University in Kairo. Sein Hauptforschungsinteresse gilt dem alten Ägypten mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dynastischer Geschichte und Chronologie , Grabarchitektur, Sarkophag- und Sargdesign, Kanopenausrüstung und die Geschichte der Ägyptologie; Er ist auch Historiker der Marine des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts und hat über die Königsgräber Großbritanniens geschrieben.

Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation pdf von Aidan Dodson

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 army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharaoh 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.