Meritaton The Unknown Queen Of Akhet Aton And Ankhesenamun The Queen Consort Of Tutankhamun

Author : Marie Elisabeth Habicht,Michael E. Habicht
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783756897605

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Meritaton, The Unknown Queen of Akhet-Aton and Ankhesenamun, The Queen Consort of Tutankhamun by Marie Elisabeth Habicht,Michael E. Habicht Pdf

Meritaton The title of the book refers to Meritaton as the unknown Queen of Akhet-Aton. Indeed, she is difficult to define, one of her trademarks in iconographic art is the bald head and often she does not wear any cloths. The book tries to collect important information and images of the Queen that might have played a pivotal role in the transition of the falling Amarna period back to the conventional state concept under King Tutankhamun. Ankhesenamun The book deals with the life and death of Ankhesenamun, the queen consort at Tutankhamun's side, which can be reconstructed from historical sources. The question of whether she was the mysterious Dahamunzu, who wrote a strange letter to the hostile king of the Hittites, is discussed in detail. On the basis of the images that can be attributed to her, an attempt is also made to define the appearance of Ankhesenamun and to suggest possible mummies, which are discussed in the research (KV 21A or CG 61076). It is possible, however, that the burial of Ankhesenamun has not yet been found, for there are no traces that would indicate a looted tomb.

Author : Marie Elisabeth Habicht,Michael E. Habicht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3756526224

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Meritaton & Ankhesenamun by Marie Elisabeth Habicht,Michael E. Habicht Pdf

Author : Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Portrait sculpture, Ancient
ISBN : 9780870998164

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The Royal Women of Amarna by Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art.

Author : Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
Publisher : Michael Imhof Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3865688489

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In the Light of Amarna by Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Pdf

An accompaniment to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s special exhibition celebrating the discovery of the Nefertiti bust in 1912, this catalog presents never-before-seen artifacts and objects from the Amarna period of Egyptian history. The book also explores religion, craftsmanship, daily life, and sculpture in Amarna and the world famous Nefertiti bust.

Author : M. Christine Tetley,Barry Tetley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0473293382

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The Reconstructed Chronology of the Egyptian Kings by M. Christine Tetley,Barry Tetley Pdf

Author : Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674983755

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Nefertiti’s Face by Joyce Tyldesley Pdf

Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means “a beautiful woman has come.” She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after Akhenaten’s death she apparently vanished and was soon forgotten. Yet Nefertiti remains one of the most famous and enigmatic women who ever lived. Her instantly recognizable face adorns a variety of modern artifacts, from expensive jewelry to cheap postcards, t-shirts, and bags, all over the world. She has appeared on page, stage, screen, and opera. In Britain, one woman has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on plastic surgery in hope of resembling the long-dead royal. This enduring obsession is the result of just one object: the lovely and mysterious Nefertiti bust, created by the sculptor Thutmose and housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum since before World War II. In Nefertiti’s Face, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley tells the story of the bust, from its origins in a busy workshop of the late Bronze Age to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912 and its present status as one of the world’s most treasured artifacts. This wide-ranging history takes us from the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt to wartime Berlin and engages the latest in Pharaonic scholarship. Tyldesley sheds light on both Nefertiti’s life and her improbable afterlife, in which she became famous simply for being famous.

Author : Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134690343

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Akhenaten by Dominic Montserrat Pdf

The 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 : Aidan Dodson
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617970504

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Amarna Sunset by Aidan Dodson Pdf

A new account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten’s revolution which "combines erudition with expertise to create an exciting account of a much mythologized period" (Book News,) now in a fully revised paperback Amarna Sunset 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. This fully updated and extensively revised paperback edition addresses new evidence and discussions that have appeared in the decade since the book was originally published. Amarna Sunset, together with its recently updated companion volume, Amarna Sunrise, accordingly provides readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Egyptian history during the golden years of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East.

Author : Alain-Pierre Zivie
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 2913805027

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The Lost Tombs of Saqqara by Alain-Pierre Zivie Pdf

"Located south of Cairo, Saqqara, the principal necropolis of Memphis, is a privileged site in Egyptian history. There, Egyptian and foreign Egyptologists have made many discoveries, in particular French archaeologists: Auguste Mariette, Gaston Maspero, and Victor Loret in the past, Jean-Philippe Lauer, who passed away at the dawn of his one hundredth year (2001), and in these last decades, Jean Leclant, founder of the French Archaeological Mission of Saqqara." "In this distinguished line of egyptologists, Alain Zivie and his team of the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion have spent the last twenty-five years examining, from the sands of Saqqara, a major New Kingdom cemetery that was later transformed into catacombs of cats. They have brought to light the tomb of the vizier 'Aper-El, with its burial treasure, and those of the painter Thothmes, of Maia, the foster mother of Tutankhamun, of an ambassador of Ramesses II, of the scribe of the Aten treasury in Memphis, and of others, as well." "Presenting the archaeological, historical, and artistic consequences of these investigations and these discoveries, the egyptologist here takes an approach that is sensitive to an authentic scientific adventure. To do this, he also uses and comments on a long series of beautiful photographs by Patrick Chapuis, in which we discover the works and the days, as well as the joys, of an entire team."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500774595

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Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet by Nicholas Reeves Pdf

Nicholas 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 : Erik Hornung,Rolf Krauss,David A. Warburton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047404002

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Ancient Egyptian Chronology by Erik Hornung,Rolf Krauss,David A. Warburton Pdf

This volume, the only up-to-date study of its kind in any language, reviews the foundations of Ancient Egyptian chronology before presenting a relative and an absolute chronology for the time span from prehistoric times until the Hellenistic Period.

Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0500051461

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The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves Pdf

The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, has exerted a unique hold on the popular imagination ever since its discovery in 1922. This is the fullest account yet published of the world's greatest archaeological discovery.

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134575862

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Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East by Trevor Bryce Pdf

From the 17th to the 12th centuries BCE, the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti (the kingdom of the Hittites), Mitanni and Assyria ruled over vast, complex territories. One of the secrets to their control was frequent communication by letter.

Author : Francis Janot,Zahi A. Hawass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9774162129

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The Royal Mummies by Francis Janot,Zahi A. Hawass Pdf

Author : Itamar Singer,Harry Angier Hoffner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004126953

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Hittite Prayers by Itamar Singer,Harry Angier Hoffner Pdf

Hittite prayers were at first heavily influenced by Babylonian and Hurrian prototypes, but soon developed their own creative style, highly emotional and rich in metaphors. The twenty-four prayers assembled in the volume cover the entire span of Hittite literary history. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).