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Amarna Sunrise
- Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Engelsk Paperback
Amarna Sunrise
- Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Engelsk Paperback

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Renown Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson, the author of Amarna Sunset, looks at how Akhenaten''s experiment with monotheism began

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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9789774167744
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9774167740
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2016
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2016
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