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The Royal Women of Amarna
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Dorothea Arnold
Categories: Portrait sculpture, Ancient
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the art
The Royal Women of Amarna
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Dorothea Arnold
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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During a brief seventeen-year reign (ca. 1353-1336 B.C.) the pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, founder of the world's first known monotheistic religion, devoted h
Akhenaten and Tutankhamun
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: David P. Silverman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-07 - Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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The Amarna Period, named after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, included the reigns of heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten
Hatshepsut, from Queen to Pharaoh
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Categories: Architecture, Egyptian
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Nefertiti’s Face
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Joyce Tyldesley
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-09 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means “a beautiful woman has come.” She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in