Amarna Sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy pdf

多德森于 1962 年 9 月 11 日出生于伦敦，曾就读于兰利文法学校 (1975-81)，之后搬到达勒姆的科林伍德学院 (1981-2)。 他在利物浦大学获得了学士学位（1985 年），在剑桥大学基督学院获得了哲学硕士学位（1986 年，博物馆实践和考古学）和博士学位（1995 年，埃及学）。 他于 1996 年 10 月开始在布里斯托大学任教，并于 2013 年 1 月至 2013 年 7 月在开罗美国大学担任辛普森埃及学教授。他的主要研究兴趣是古埃及，特别关注王朝历史和年表 、墓葬建筑、石棺和棺材设计、天篷设备和埃及学史； 他还是 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初海军的历史学家，并撰写了关于英国皇家陵墓的文章。

Amarna Sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy pdf 艾丹·多德森

The latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt's political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the most stupendous temples of all time, some of the greatest dedicated to Amun-Re, King of the Gods. Yet a century later these temples lay derelict, the god's images, names, and titles all erased in an orgy of iconoclasm by Akhenaten, the devotee of a single sun-god. This book traces the history of Egypt from the death of the great warrior-king Thutmose III to the high point of Akhenaten's reign, when the known world brought gifts to his newly-built capital city of Amarna, in particular looking at the way in which the cult of the sun became increasingly important to even 'orthodox' kings, culminating in the transformation of Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III, into a solar deity in his own right.