Ancient History Magazine

READINGS: THE REIGN OF AKHENATEN

EGYPT’S GOLDEN COUPLE: WHEN AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI WERE GODS ON EARTH

By John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
St. Martin’s Press, 2022
ISBN: 978-1803991917

The attempted erasure of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from history has left archaeologists and historians little with which to reconstruct their reign. Since their discovery, the couple have been subject to widely different (and contradictory) biographies. In, John and Colleen Darnell seek to undo previous mistakes, returning

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