Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient EgyptThe 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. |
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... the same way as other famous pharaohs like Cheops and Cleopatra . Revealed by archaeology in the early nineteenth century , Akhenaten emerged largely unencumbered by cultural baggage and ready to be reborn . Since that time , the ...
... the same way as other famous pharaohs like Cheops and Cleopatra . Revealed by archaeology in the early nineteenth century , Akhenaten emerged largely unencumbered by cultural baggage and ready to be reborn . Since that time , the ...
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... the same time Egyptian culture went off along paths that pointed in the opposite direction to western enlightenment - towards the occult , polytheism , and the ultimate decline of great empires . In this sense , ancient Egypt was a ...
... the same time Egyptian culture went off along paths that pointed in the opposite direction to western enlightenment - towards the occult , polytheism , and the ultimate decline of great empires . In this sense , ancient Egypt was a ...
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... the same thing , the first prig.22 From his office at the Museum , Hall wrote to Arthur Weigall ( 1880-1934 ) who from 1905 to 1914 had been Inspector - General of Antiquities for the Egyptian Government but had since left the ...
... the same thing , the first prig.22 From his office at the Museum , Hall wrote to Arthur Weigall ( 1880-1934 ) who from 1905 to 1914 had been Inspector - General of Antiquities for the Egyptian Government but had since left the ...
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... the same earth , but painting their heads larger , to distinguish them from the ' mass ' , the heroes are pictured ( very few of them , but well chosen ) , the transformers of religions , the inventors or creators of these , the ...
... the same earth , but painting their heads larger , to distinguish them from the ' mass ' , the heroes are pictured ( very few of them , but well chosen ) , the transformers of religions , the inventors or creators of these , the ...
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... the same time it was also the ancient place which confirmed modern aspirations to bourgeois domesticity . In this context , I examine the personal agenda of the archaeologists who excavated Amarna and often doubled as journalists to ...
... the same time it was also the ancient place which confirmed modern aspirations to bourgeois domesticity . In this context , I examine the personal agenda of the archaeologists who excavated Amarna and often doubled as journalists to ...
Contents
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The archaeologies of Amarna | 56 |
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Protestants psychoanalysts and Fascists | 95 |
Race and religion | 117 |
Literary Akhenatens | 139 |
Sexualities | 168 |
Epilogue | 183 |
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