Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife Dodson Aidan
Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan DodsonDuring the last half of the fourteenth century BC, Egypt was perhaps at the height of its prosperity. It…
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Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan DodsonDuring the last half of the fourteenth century BC, Egypt was perhaps at the height of its prosperity. It was against this background that the "Amarna Revolution" occurred. Throughout, its instigator, King Akhenaten, had at his side his Great Wife, Nefertiti. When a painted bust of the queen found at Amarna in 1912 was first revealed to the public in the 1920s, it soon became one of the great artistic icons of the world. Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt and one of the best recognized figures of antiquity, but her image has come in many ways to overshadow the woman herself.Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively
Afterglow of Empire Dodson Aidan