Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation 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 Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation pdf 艾丹·多德森

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.