{"id":254912,"date":"2010-01-31T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6116840488462139724"},"modified":"2010-01-31T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:18:47","slug":"new-book-amarna-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/254912","title":{"rendered":"New Book:  Amarna Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucpress.com\/p-3620-amarna-sunset.aspx\">American University in Cairo Press<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Amarna Sunset. Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation  <\/span><br \/>Aidan Dodson<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S2WER3RcZOI\/AAAAAAAAKJY\/iUyPNBTx0U4\/s1600-h\/AmarnaSunset.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S2WER3RcZOI\/AAAAAAAAKJY\/iUyPNBTx0U4\/s200\/AmarnaSunset.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432893967922128098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten\u2019s religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime\u2019s high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s life-work before her own mysterious disappearance.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6116840488462139724?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American University in Cairo Press Amarna Sunset. Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation Aidan Dodson This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten\u2019s religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime\u2019s high-point in his Year 12, it traces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}