The History of Egypt

119: Tut-ankh-Aten (Tutankhamun the Prince)

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Akhenaten (Part 9): A Royal Son. By 1352 BCE, Akhenaten and his family were well ensconced in the palaces of Amarna. The pharaoh could enjoy the company of his Great Wife, Nefertiti, and his three elder daughters. He could also enjoy the pleasures afforded by his second wife and look forward to the eventual birth of his son, a prince who would become one of the most famous names in Egyptian history...

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    • Select Bibliography:

    • Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2012.
    • Lyn Green, ‘The Royal Women of Amarna: Who Was Who’, in D. Arnold et al. (eds), The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (New York, 1999), 7--16. Free download.
    • Nozomu Kawai, Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun, PhD Diss., 2006. Preview.
    • Barry Kemp, City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.
    • Arris Kramer, “Enigmatic Kiya,” in A.K. Eyma and C.J. Bennett (eds.), A Delta-Man in Yebu: Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists’ Electronic Forum, Volume I (2003): 48-64. Google Books preview.
    • Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. I: The Tomb of Meryre, 1903. Archive.org.
    • William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
    • William J. Murnane and Cornel van Siclen III, The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten, 1993.
    • Alain Zivie, La tombe de Maïa, mère nourricière du roi Toutânkhamon et grande du harem (Bub. I. 20), 2009.
    • Alain Zivie, “La nourrice royale Maïa et ses voisins: cinq tombeaux du Nouvel Empire récemment découverts à Saqqara” Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1998): 33-54. Online edition.

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