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Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen Paperback - 2005

by Joyce A. Tyldesley

The classic account of Egypt's most famous queen now fully revised

For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in theBronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family, and worshipped by her people.Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passing, and to this day her end remains an enigma her body has never been found. Fully revising her classic biography of Egypt's sun queen, historian Joyce Tyldesley draws on a wealth of scholarly and archeological evidence to investigate the truth behind the life, times, and mysterious disappearance of the legendary Nefertiti.


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For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family, and worshipped by her people.

Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passing, and to this day her end remains an enigma—her body has never been found. Fully revising her classic biography of Egypt’s sun queen, historian Joyce Tyldesley draws on a wealth of scholarly and archeological evidence to investigate the truth behind the life, times, and mysterious disappearance of the legendary Nefertiti.

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Joyce Tyldesley, holder of a doctorate from Oxford University, is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Oriental Studies at Liverpool University, England. She is the author of Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh and Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Eygpt.

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Once upon a time, a long time ago in a far-away land, the king of the gods.

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  • Title Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen
  • Author Joyce A. Tyldesley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date August 26, 2005
  • ISBN 9780141017242 / 0141017244
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 0.04 x 0.04 x 0.57 in (0.10 x 0.10 x 1.45 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Nefertiti, Egypt - History - Eighteenth dynasty, ca.
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Joyce Tyldesley, holder of a doctorate from Oxford University, is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Oriental Studies at Liverpool University, England. She is the author of Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh and Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Eygpt.
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