William Durand-Poole

If the mummy that we have found in King's Valley 55 is indeed Akhenaten, and it's possible, then we can say he didn't look anything like that at all.

I think something like that's going on.

Isn't it just?

He wants a virgin site that nobody's built on before.

He kind of has a vision from his God.

You know, he's not the only person in history to have this.

Alexander is a good example, you know.

A new place, untainted by any other God.

That's what he says, actually, in the Great Hymn.

Untainted by any other God, a new place.

And he goes to this place, Middle Egypt.

It's about maybe three hours' drive south from Cairo today, which has a flat...

base, and then there are two mountains with sort of plateaus, really, rises out of the horizon.

And this was basically the physical manifestation of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, archet, which means horizon.

So he saw in the landscape a hieroglyphic, which said, this is the place.

Oh my goodness me, yes.

I think that's the thing.

This is, Atenism is a personal relationship between Akhenaten and the Aten.

Nobody else matters.

Very quickly.