Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So Akhenaten
his father is really pretty magnificent ruler who builds lots and has lots of statuary and rules well over 30 years and Akhenaten and Tutankhamen inherit this and some would say Akhenaten kind of squanders it
Yeah, I mean, because Akhenaten, whichever way you cut it, I mean, Akhenaten is a very singular individual.
He was once described as the first individual in history.
He must...
be quite a commanding guy because she's instituted all these reforms.
So then when he disappears, maybe before he disappears, he takes, as is not uncommon, a co-ruler.
So we have the name Smenychkare, who seems to be a co-ruler of Akhenaten's and who may die, disappear before Akhenaten's death.
And then for some people, my colleague, Professor Aidan Dodson included, Nefertiti, the wife of Akhenaten, takes on the role of king.
So there's a period, there's a kind of interregnum, you could say, between the death of Akhenaten and Tutankhaten becoming king, before he changes his name, where there's various, yeah, kind of horse trading for power.
So we probably know rather less about Ai.
He seems to be an elder statesman already in the reign of Akhenaten from a powerful family in some way connected to the royal family.
We're not quite sure how.
For some people, for some Egyptologists, he's the father of Nefertiti.
I'm a little sceptical about that myself.
He takes on the slightly mysterious title of God's father.
And if you're the god's father, you could say maybe, I don't know, you're the father-in-law of the king.
You're kind of acting as a regent.
But he appears in Tutankhamen's shadow pretty much at the same scale as the king, which is a great presumption.
If you show yourself as the same scale visually as the pharaoh of Egypt, you must be someone quite important.
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