Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun was an Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh whose short reign followed the Amarna religious revolution. His government restored traditional cults and moved away from Akhenaten’s programme; his largely intact tomb later transformed modern knowledge and popular imagination of ancient Egypt.

Christian Jacq’s The Tutankhamun Affair places Tutankhamun within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. 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. Other novels featuring Tutankhamun include Pauline Gedge’s The Twelfth Transforming.

In non-fiction, Tutankhamun is discussed in Paul Doherty’s The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun. In Paul Doherty’s The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun, Paul Doherty reconstructs the life and early death of Tutankhamun, the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh who inherited a court still recovering from Akhenaten’s religious revolution.