Anita Arnon

See, I knew you'd do that very well.

And the thing I wanted to say, Gilgud, adjacent, next town.

The thing is, Aidan, what is to me quite striking about this, and I don't know whether it is you, that this is the court of Akhenaten where every image is so controlled.

You know, the way in which people see things is so sort of organised and at a distance.

And yet here you have something that anybody who's ever loved a child or a

Yeah, the most plausible explanation is that the family is sort of dropping like flies, not because of overwork like the workers and everyone around them, but because of some kind of epidemic disease.

I mean, what evidence do we have from that?

Okay, sure.

But before we do that, is there actual evidence that there was a plague?

She says, warming up her vocal cords.

Jane Fonda, that's a current reference.

It's fine.

She's amazing.

Okay, let me do this.

So this is one of the plague prayers from the Hittites.

Hattian storm god, my lord and you gods, my lords, it is so that people are dying in Hattiland.

The plague has been rampant in Hattiland ever since the time of the Egyptians were brought back as prisoners.

The matter of plague, I have not suppressed.

I have told it to the storm god, my lord.

Now the storm god, my lord, save me.