139: King Tut-ankh-Aten

A famous reign. Following the death of Nefer-neferu-aten, a new ruler came to the throne. Tut-ankh-Aten was young, perhaps nine years old. He inherited power at a tumultuous point in history...

• Date c. 1343 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

• A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd Edition, Cairo, 2017).
• A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (London, 2004).
• M. Eaton-Krauss, ‘King Tutankhaten’, Orientalia 80 (2011), 300–4.
• M. Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
• M. Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon (Paris, 1998).
• N. Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
• W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).
• N. Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).

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