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PW Pick 2013
"Australian author Greenwood, having made a name for herself with the lighthearted Phryne Fisher series, succeeds brilliantly with this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.
Ptah-hotep,
...4) Akhnaten
Author
Publisher
CBS Records
Pub. Date
p1987
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (129 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Akkadian
5) Akhnaten
Author
Publisher
Orange Mountain Music
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (138 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
448 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Someday,' said the tribute-offering called Nofret, 'I shall be the chief of the queen's servants. Then I can call myself whatever I please. 'Nofret is the daughter of a Hittite nobleman, captured by enemies from Mitanni and sent as tribute to the Pharaoh in Egypt: the strange, otherworldly Akhenaten, who rules from his raw new city of Amarna. As servant to his daughter, she witnesses the rise and fall of Akhenaten and his one god, the lives and deaths...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxii, 361 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask of his son Tutankhamun and the painted bust of his wife...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1960.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Properly following the author's "Ages in chaos", this book tells the story of Pharaoh Akhnaton whose life, the author maintains, is the basis of the Greek story of Oedipus.
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Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2012
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320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years brought it back into prominence. Based on more than three decades of research and excavation by Barry Kemp, this account provides new insight into Amarna...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secretly assigned to solve the disappearance of the enigmatic Egyptian queen, chief detective of ancient Thebes Rai Rahotep finds himself removed from his quaint home village and thrust into a teeming criminal world in which he is a stranger.
Publisher
Museum of Fine Arts in association with Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
316 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Few figures in history evoke the curiosity or command the attention that Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen do. Pharaoh Akhenaten founded the city of Amarna 3,500 years ago. In this volume the fascinating Amarna Period of ancient Egypt comes to life through more than 250 beautiful works of sculpture, architectural elements, ceramic ware, jewelry, clothing, tools, and furniture from renowned international collections. Essays by leading Egyptian...
16) Scepter of flint
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Series
Publisher
WayBack Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
376 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani's daughter is a physician, and Egypt's ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usurper, Hani must make sense of what is happening. And who in high places is his real enemy."--Back cover
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1440 minnutes) in 4 containers : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 171 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand that our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. The most advanced of any ancient civilization, Egypt's ancient kingdom lasted for 30 centuries, longer than any other, yet today, it remains one of the most mysterious. Home of the only one of the Eight Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, the Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world until well into the 1800s. This course...
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