Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt

Aidan Dodson

Description

• A master historian of ancient Egypt and AUC Press bestselling author unravels Nefertiti’s story
  
  
  
• Nefertiti is the most famous female Pharaoh and this book comes at a time when books on remarkable women are very in vogue
  
  
  
• Nefertiti’s appeal combined with Dodson’s storytelling & reputation make this his strongest book yet
  
  
  
• Accessibly written and fully illustrated throughout.
  
  
  

Sujets

• ancient
• Historical
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Women
• Abu simbel
• Faraón (videojuego)
• George Herbert de Carnarvon
• Tutankamon
• Regalía
• Egipto
• Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
• Queen of Egypt
• Archaeology
• Egypt
• Earl of Carnarvon
• Abu Simbel temples
• Royalty
• 18 (number)
• Nefertiti
• Akhenaten
• Egyptology
• Ancient history
• Woman
• Tutankhamun
• Pharaoh
• Middle East
• History of Africa
• History of Egypt
• Ancient Egypt
• The Women
• Afterlife
• Redevance
• George Herbert (Lord Carnarvon)
• 1922

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 06 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781649031686
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 105 Mo

Extrait

B Y T H E A U T H O R O FR A M E S E S I I I A I D A N D O D S O N NEFERTITI QUEEN AND PHARAOH OF EGYPT H E R L I F E A N D A F T E R L I F E

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H E R L I F E A N D A F T E R L I F E

AIDAN DODSON

The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York

First published in 2020 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt One Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 www.aucpress.com

Copyright © 2020 by AUC Press

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Dar el Kutub No. 26215/19 ISBN 978 977 416 990 8

Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dodson, Aidan, 1962— Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife / Aidan Dodson.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. p. cm. ISBN 978 977 416 990 8 Nefertiti—Queen of Egypt—Active 14th century BC. Queens—Egypt 932

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Designed by Sally Boylan Printed in China

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C ONTENTS

P REFACE A BBREVIATIONSAND C ONVENTIONS I NTRODUCTION 1 T C N HE RADLE OF EFERTITI 2 Q UEENOF E GYPT 3 T C Q P O ROWNED UEEN AND HARAOH 4 L IMBO 5 R ESURRECTION

C HRONOLOGY N OTES B IBLIOGRAPHY S OURCESOF I MAGES I NDEX

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P REFACE

search of the database of Oxford University’s Bodleian Library gives something over a hundred hits for books including the name “Nefertiti” in their title—the the A 1912/This included the first13 season of German excavations at Tell el-Amarna. earliest being the 1923 publication of images of the queen excavated during publication of the iconic painted bust that continues to dominate popular perceptions of the queen, and seems thus appropriate as the first stand-alone volume entirely dedicated to her. It was not until another three decades had elapsed that the next appeared, Mary Chubb’sNefertiti Lived Here (1954, with a German translation in 1956, followed by a Russian one in 1961), a charming memoir of excavating at Tell el-Amarna in the 1930s. Subsequently, volumes on the queen rapidly rise in number, ranging from works of poetry and fantasy to serious historical studies (some with, probably unintentional, fantastic elements), and an array of other kinds of work in between. In many works, Nefertiti plays a major role alongside her husband Akhenaten or other members of her family, in particular Tutankhamun. Why, then, add yet another book to this already wide- ranging library? In part, this is because the past few years have revealed new data—or new ways to look at old data—that make even quite recent works obsolescent regarding some aspects of Nefertiti’s career. This is especially true regarding its end, where the 2012 discovery of a single graffito showing that she was alive and still functioning as King’s Great Wife a year before her husband’s death set to naught a range of earlier theories. These new data have, of course, given rise to a whole swath of new ideas and speculations about her and her family. Indeed, the very title of this book indicates the way that the emerging data have fundamentally altered the author’s own views on Nefertiti’s career: my very first published paper, back in 1981, was an explicit denial of the possibility of her ascent to the status of pharaoh, an idea that I now unreservedly embrace!

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