114b: Defining the Horizons

Amarna (Part 2): Akhenaten's Priorities and Mindset.

A short side episode, concerning Akhenaten's mind-set around the time he moved to Amarna. Did the King always plan this city? Did he want to live here forever and never leave? And how did he think about the community he was developing? We explore these questions...

• Date: c.1357 BCE (Regnal Year 6).
• King: Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re).
• Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten Neferet-Iti).
• Locations: Thebes (Waset); Amarna (Akhet-Aten).
• Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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• Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.

Select Bibliography:

• Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.
• Marianne Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun, 2016.
• Marc Gabolde, Akhenaten a Toutankhamoun, 1998.
• Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.
• Dimitri Laboury, Akhenaton les grand pharaons, 2010.
• Phillipe Martinez, “Un monument préamarnien ignoré: Le Ramesséum,” Memnonia 15 (2004): 123-150.
• Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, 2005.
• William J. Murnane, The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten, 1993.
• William J. Murnane, Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
• Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1984.

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