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Historical person
c. 1370–c. 1330 BCE
Nefertiti was the principal wife of Akhenaten and a major figure of the Amarna Period. Art shows her participating unusually closely in royal ritual and government, though her later life and possible role after Akhenaten remain debated.
In Pauline Gedge’s The Twelfth Transforming, the narrative follows Tiye, Nefertiti and the royal family as court life becomes increasingly isolated from political and military reality. In Mika Waltari’s The Egyptian, his friendship with the soldier Horemheb and his proximity to Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ay place him at the centre of the Amarna upheaval and its violent aftermath.
Series
Michelle Moran’s Egyptian Royals Collection follows three royal women whose lives are reshaped by dynastic rupture and imperial power. Nefertiti rises beside Akhenaten during the Amarna religious revolution; Nefertari struggles to overcome that discredited legacy at the court of Ramesses II; and Cleopatra Selene is carried to Rome…
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