William de Rimpel

You've got a kind of almost infinite number of gods and two principal sets of gods.

You've got the Egyptian set who are being worshipped in Egypt.

And then you've got the Canaanite gods that are extended over quite a wide region, all the way from Ugarit in modern Syria down to Jerusalem.

You definitely feel that there is the beginning of the setting of the stage, that you have a narrowing of the number of gods in Amenhotep III's reign.

But no letters from Mycenae or Minos in your collection, unless they were destroyed on the donkey journey.

And we know her face.

It's quite distinctive, isn't it?

Yes.

She looks quite nubian, quite dark.

Before we move on to the next episode, just paint us a picture of Egypt on the eve of Akhenaten's accession.

This is a golden age, isn't it?

I mean, this is one of the high points of Egyptian civilization.

And goodbye from me, William Turimple.

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