Dr. Campbell Price

But so that settlement in Middle Egypt is the home of the king.

It's where the king and the elite are going to be buried.

And you get the sense that Akhenaten's really kind of sequestered himself away at Amarna

and is ignoring other things where traditionally the king in ancient Egypt moved around.

It was a peripatetic court, as in other traditions.

The king moves around to keep an eye on people, to make sure that they're loyal.

Who knows what else is happening in Egypt at this time, but the court is focused in Middle Egypt.

So you could see that the letters are arriving.

saying to Akhenaten, we could do with your help.

If you want to maintain your presence in this part of the Levant, then please send help.

And he doesn't seem to send help.

He doesn't.

Well, the biggest name in terms of, you know, historical cache is, of course, Tutankhamen.

Tutankhamen, okay.

So Tutankhamen, by most accounts, is the son of Akhenaten, right?

And he comes to the throne, we can be as sure as we can be sure, at nine or ten years old.

Oh dear, wow.

He's a little boy, and he is being controlled by kind of revisionist politicians, for want of a better term, who want to backtrack on the revolution.

And so all of this is put in the words of the boy king.

I have restored the temples.