Aidan Dodson

Which means he's, what, about 30, 35?

Probably, I suppose.

The trouble is we don't know how old he was when he came to the throne, although the fact he was unmarried at the time would suggest he's in his late teens.

Oh, early teens, yeah.

Well, somewhere in his teens anyway, when he comes to the throne.

It's certainly somewhere around there.

But again, we haven't got enough... We have very, very little data on the actual ages of most ancient Egyptians.

They don't happen to say that I'm 16 years old or whatever.

There's a couple of people who we date.

It's very unusual to have that stated.

So anyway, we've got...

So, yeah, that's probably a reasonable kind of thing, you know, from if he gets married around 1516 and then is dying in year 17.

That's probably that adds up quite well.

Yeah.

One of the big questions about Akhenaten is at what point he starts persecuting the god Amun.

There's two levels to this, because going back into about year five is when the Aten becomes the sole god who he's actually going to bother with.

Whether he actually believes he is the sole god or the only god he wants to worship is another completely different debate.

Then most of the other gods are simply ignored.

They basically, in modern terms, have their funding withdrawn.

But there's no real attempt to actually remove them.