Akhenaten: A Historian's View examines what scholars have said over the years regarding key aspects of Akhenaten and his times ('the Amarna Period'), to produce a 'history of histories,' exploring exactly how various chains of arguments were arrived at-and how houses of cards thus erected have subsequently come tumbling down. In particular, it teases out ideas based on solid documentation from those based on theory and fancy, and tracks ways in which new evidence became available, how it was interpreted, and how it fed-or didn't-into the big picture.

Preface
Abbreviations
Maps
1. Akhenaten: Fashion, Fantasy, and Fact
2. The Theban Years
3. Akhet-Aten: "The Horizon of the Aten"
4. The Cult of the Aten
5. Two Queens
6. An Empire Lost?
7. Smenkhkare, Neferneferuaten, and the End of Akhenaten's Reign
8. Two Royal Tombs
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Sources of Figures
Index

Ronald T. Ridley is professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne. He is the author of twenty books and over one hundred articles. His main interest is the history of the ancient world, particularly Egypt and Rome.