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Amarna Sunrise - Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy (Paperback)
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Amarna Sunrise - Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy (Paperback)
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List price R482
Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
You Save R25 (5%)
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The latter part of the fifteenth century bc saw Egypt's political
power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond
the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the
south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to
commission some of the most stupendous temples of all time, some of
the greatest dedicated to Amun-Re, King of the Gods. Yet a century
later these temples lay derelict, the god's images, names, and
titles all erased in an orgy of iconoclasm by Akhenaten, the
devotee of a single sun-god. This book traces the history of Egypt
from the death of the great warrior-king Thutmose III to the high
point of Akhenaten's reign, when the known world brought gifts to
his newly-built capital city of Amarna, in particular looking at
the way in which the cult of the sun became increasingly important
to even 'orthodox' kings, culminating in the transformation of
Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III, into a solar deity in his own
right.
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