Book Review: Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism
/The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation
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The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation
Read MoreWilbur Smith continues the adventures of his super-eunuch Taita in his latest novel set in ancient Egypt
Read More3000 years ago, a capable, enigmatic woman named Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for over twenty years; a spirited new biography tells her story
Read MoreIn Sally Beauman's new novel, a young girl sent to Egypt for her health becomes entangled in dramatic events surrounding Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb ...
Read MoreAfter an unearthly quiet of nearly three thousand years, he's been the idol of the world for nearly a century - he's the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, and Jo Marchant makes his old story new again
Read MoreThe calm-eyed gold-plated absolute rulers of ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs in all their splendor, are brought to life in a revealing new history.
Read MoreA sumptuous catalogue of the earliest artwork from ancient Egypt
Read MoreAny new study of Tutankhamen faces an array of obstacles - some more familiar than others.
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