William de Rimpel

And this is all one man's vision, but that contains within it the seeds of its own destruction, right?

It's so personal.

Yeah.

And so centered on this one extraordinary figure.

that when he falters, and he doesn't bring everyone with him either.

Well, his daddy was

They're showing signs of malnutrition?

We should say that these same workmen who are malnourished and looking as if they're being overworked and having a miserable time, they have as their gods, the old gods.

They're not interested in all this sun nonsense.

They're still wanting hippopotamus gods and bests if they're giving birth and all the things that they believe in, that their mothers believed in and grandmothers believed in, everything that really matters to these people.

Of course, I'd be happy to.

Okay, on you go then.

In the chamber prepared for the dead princess, the walls show Akhenaten and Nefertiti standing before Abaya.

Their bodies bent forward, their arms raised in the gesture of mourning.

Beside them, attendants hold their hands to their faces.

The king and queen weep openly, an image without precedent in Egyptian royal art, where the ruler was always shown in composed divine authority.

Outside the chamber doorway, a nurse holds an infant.

Scholars have debated for generations what that infant signifies.

Did Mecca Tartan die in childbirth?

Was it a ritual image of the princess reborn?