Chapter VIII: The Fall of the Religion of Akhnaton

1. THE BURIAL OF AKHNATON 258
2. THE COURT RETURNS TO THEBES 264
3. THE REIGN OF HOREMHEB 268
4. THE PERSECUTION OF AKHNATON’S MEMORY 272
5. THE FINDING OF THE BODY OF AKHNATON 276

INDEX 285

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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PAVEMENT DECORATION FROM THE PALACE OF AMONHOTEP III.
(_coloured_) _Frontispiece_

CEILING DECORATION FROM THE PALACE OF AMONHOTEP III.
(_coloured_) 36

THOTHMES IV. SLAYING ASIATICS 22

TUAU, GRANDMOTHER OF AKHNATON 26

CHEST BELONGING TO YUAA 28

QUEEN TIY 30

YUAA, GRANDFATHER OF AKHNATON 32

AMONHOTEP-SON-OF-HAPU, THE “WISE MAN” OF THE COURT
OF AMONHOTEP III. 34

SITE OF THE PALACE OF QUEEN TIY 38

COFFIN OF YUAA 40

AMONHOTEP III. 54

AKHNATON 58

THE ART OF AKHNATON COMPARED WITH ARCHAIC ART 72

THE ARTIST AUTA 76

AKHNATON AND NEFERTITI WITH THEIR THREE DAUGHTERS 108

THE HEAD OF THE MUMMY OF THOTHMES IV., THE GRANDFATHER
OF AKHNATON 110

AKHNATON DRIVING WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER 130

AKHNATON AND HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN 134

AN EXAMPLE OF THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN SYRIA
AND EGYPT 190

CARVED WOODEN CHAIR, THE DESIGNS PARTLY COVERED
WITH GOLD-LEAF 202

AKHNATON. (_From a Statuette in the Louvre_) 206

HEAD OF AKHNATON’S DAUGHTER 208

LETTER FROM RIBADDI TO THE KING OF EGYPT, REPORTING
THE PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION UNDER AZIRU. (_British
Museum, No. 29,801_) 234

DEATH MASK OF AKHNATON 258

THE TEMPLE AT LUXOR 270

MAP OF AKHETATON, THE CITY OF THE HORIZON OF ATON
(TEL EL AMARNA) _At end._

“How much Akhnaton understood we cannot say, but he had certainly
bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a position which
we cannot logically improve upon at the present day.”--PETRIE:
‘History of Egypt.’

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AKHNATON.