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Title: Hmmmmm
Review: This is an engrossing book but entirely historically inaccurate. It has fallen into the pit so common with writers on Akhenaten in that it tries to romanticise this king. First of all, Akhenaten did believe in the Aten, that was his one and only G-d. Nefertiti was not Akhenaten's only love. He is known to have had many wives including his daughter, Merytaton. Nefertiti probably died, and Smenkhare did suceed Akhenaten. He was not a pacifist and is known to have fought some very successful campaigns. Besides this however, the book provided some interesting reading, and though I disagree with its interpretation of the sun king, one should read it anyway, at least if one also reads some Alan Gardiner to unbias him.
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