Akhenaten - Aldred, Cyril
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The revolutionary cult of sun-worship that Akhenaten introduced, and such contentious issues as the role of Nefertiti as a goddess, the dominant part played by plague during Akhenaten's reign, and likely events of the king's twilight years are treated with new insight and set within the framework of an authoritative overview of the entire period.

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The revolutionary cult of sun-worship that Akhenaten introduced, and such contentious issues as the role of Nefertiti as a goddess, the dominant part played by plague during Akhenaten's reign, and likely events of the king's twilight years are treated with new insight and set within the framework of an authoritative overview of the entire period.
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Cyril Aldred was among the first to graduate in the History of Art at the newly founded Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1936, and studied Egyptology as an art historian. From 1961 to 1974 he was Keeper of the Department of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, and he also served as Associate Curator fot e Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He died in 1991. His many publications include Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom (1965), Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973), Jewels of the Pharaohs (2nd edn, 1978), Tutankhamen, Craftsmanship in Gold in the Reign of the King (1979), The Egyptians (rev. edn, 1987), and Akhenaten: King of Egypt (1988).