Eric Cline

Yes, exactly.

I mean, Shoopy Luliuma Klein, it would have had a ring to it.

Yeah, but then everybody would have called him Shoopy, and we don't want that.

Anyway, I think a lot of what Amenhotep III was doing was trying to rein in the growing power of the Hittites.

And as we see a couple hundred years later, he was correct in trying to corral them.

But so a lot of the dynastic and diplomatic marriages with these other kings, you can actually see that they're in a circle around the Hittites.

But he was a traditional king.

He kept the traditional gods and goddesses going.

He's got the traditional sculpture.

As you said, he'd like to have himself portrayed.

But always...

As a youthful young man, even when he's older, he still looks really good and really young.

That's one thing that Akhenaten is going to change.

And he's often depicted with his wife.

Is it Tai?

Ti, Ti, yes.

And that is wonderful.

It's a love story.

Queen Ti and Amenhotep III, she is the daughter of two, maybe even commoners.

And they seem to have married for love rather than anything else.