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During the last half of the fourteenth century BC, Egypt was perhaps at the height of its prosperity. It was against this background that the "Amarna Revolution" occurred. Throughout, its instigator, King Akhenaten, had at his side his Great Wife, Nefertiti. When a painted bust of the queen found at Amarna in 1912 was first revealed to the public in the 1920s, it soon became one of the great artistic icons of the world. Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt and one of the best recognized figures of antiquity, but her image has come in many ways to overshadow the woman herself. 0Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the queen, tracing the way in which she and her image emerged in the wake of the first tentative decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs during the 1820s-1840s, and then took on the world over the next century and beyond. 0All indications are that her final fate was a tragic one, but although every effort was made to wipe out Nefertiti's memory after her death, modern archaeology has rescued the queen-pharaoh from obscurity and set her on the road to today's international status. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)932.014092History and Geography Ancient World Ancient Egypt to 640 Early history to 332 BC Pharaohs -- Biography and HistoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Dodson presenteert zijn eigen visie op het leven van deze koningin en creƫert daarbij weer wat nieuwe mogelijkheden. Hij heeft daarbij steeds oog voor alternatieve visies. Het laatste deel van het boek is overigens een korte geschiedenis van het onderzoek naar Nefertiti. Zijn argumentatie had hier en daar wat uitgebreider gemogen. Over het algemeen, schetst hij een evenwichtig en aannemelijk beeld, maar of het ook waar is?
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