Dimensions
158 x 243 x 43mm
The True Story of a Remarkable Discovery.
An amazing quest. An astonishing discovery. The extraordinary truth behind Ancient Egypt's most mysterious queen.
Nefertiti - "the Beautiful" - is one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures. Wife of the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten, she lived through perhaps the most tumultuous period in the country's long history.
The so-called Amarna Period has long held a fascination - not just for the enormous changes it brought to the religion, art and administration of Egypt, but for the many mysteries which surround it. Mysteries, that is, until now.
Leading Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher has taken a fresh eye to the evidence and arrived at one of the most dramatic discoveries in recent times. Working with a team of leading experts, she has identified a long-forgotten mummy as the body of a female pharaoh of the Amarna Period, whom she believes is Nefertiti herself. Lying for over three thousand years in an unused side chamber of Tomb KV.35 in the Valley of the Kings, it tells a story which will forever change the way in which we view Nefertiti - and indeed women throughout Egyptian history.
Now at last we see the full significance of her role as co-regent and later Pharaoh of Egypt. Now, through Joann's reconstruction, we can also understand the astonishing luxury and decadence of her life in Amarna - a life she led as the country around her began to disintegrate.
A truly compelling new portrait of one of the most important women in history, this is also one of the most riveting detective stories in Egyptology so far.
