Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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are so memorialised, so commemorated, so materialised in stone.
Because remember, Akhenaten's closed all the temples.
He said, right, there's only one god, essentially, at the Aten, and we're only going to worship him.
So all the other gods are totally obsolete.
So all the temples are going to get closed.
I'm moving to a new capital.
So the sculptors who trained under his father, the traditional Amenhotep III, were producing statues.
I've got nothing else to do but do lots of images of the royal family.
Well, previously there were lots of images of gods and people in ancient Egypt liked statuary.
So the sculptors are just told, right, in the absence of any gods, you can't sculpt a statue of the Aten, the sun disk really.
He's the god in the sky.
Just loads and loads and loads of images in relief and in sculpture in the round of Akhenaten, his chief wife Nefertiti.
She seems to see off any other wives.
And the whole tribe of girls, but no tut.
Six daughters who can only all have been alive together briefly because there's at least one death pretty soon.
As was probably not uncommon to an ancient Egyptian family, having six children was often accompanied by a high infant mortality rate.
So we're talking about the 14th century BCE, right?
So leading up to about 1350 is around the reign of Tutankhamun.
So this is, you know, a high point in Egyptian history, what Egyptologists call the New Kingdom, the 18th dynasty.
Lots of battles have been waged, lots of foreign territory has been, if not included in an empire, I'm sceptical about the concept of empire, I should say on a podcast called Empire in ancient Egypt, but there's definitely raiding and acquisition of materials.
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