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Author: Professor Nicholas Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780500051061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers information on Akhenaten's reign, including his efforts to impose upon his kingdom the worship of a single god, the political, social, and artistic facets of the Amarna era, the fate of his wife, Nefertiti, and the death of his heir, Tutankhamen.
Author: Nicholas Reeves
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500294690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.
Author: Nicholas Reeves
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0500774595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.
Author: Professor Nicholas Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780500051061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers information on Akhenaten's reign, including his efforts to impose upon his kingdom the worship of a single god, the political, social, and artistic facets of the Amarna era, the fate of his wife, Nefertiti, and the death of his heir, Tutankhamen.
Author: Dominic Montserrat
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1134690347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.
Author: Carl Nicholas Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780500051054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the history of ancient Egypt through the great archaeological discoveries, from the pre-dynastic period to the Graeco-Roman era.
Author: Mika Waltari
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Published: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1774642972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Published: 2016-11-24
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 8898301790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.
Author: Atef Alshaer
Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 2019-05-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0863569951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the 1948 Nakba. This unique, landmark anthology includes translated excerpts of works by major authors such as Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani and Fadwa Tuqan alongside those of emerging writers, published here in English for the first time. Depicting the varied aspects of Palestinian life both before and after 1948, their writings highlight the ongoing resonances of the Nakba. An intimate companion for all lovers of world literature, A Map of Absence reveals the depth and breadth of Palestinian writing.
