Nefertiti : Egypt's sun queen

Tyldesley, Joyce A. author

Overview

\"For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world ; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt, and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passing, and to this day her end remains an enigma. Was she banished by her husband, or was she promoted to rule alongside him as an equal? Did she change her name to reign as a king in her own right ? Could Nefertiti have guided the young Tutankhamen as he took his place on the throne of the pharaohs ?\" \"Joyce Tyldesley uses a combination of archaeological, textual and artistic evidence to provide a detailed discussion of the life and times of Nefertiti, Egypt's sun queen, set against the background of the ephemeral Amarna court.\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: Penguin Books,CLays Ltd
• Subject: Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, active 14th century B.C / Queens Egypt Biography / Egypt History Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C
• ISBN: 0140258205, 9780140258202

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DT 87.45 .T95 1999	1	BOOK	ARTS