William Durand-Poole

Please send us troops.

And, you know, they just get the answer.

I'm sorry, I'm not in the office right now.

Yes, absolutely.

I mean, and you've got to wonder again, you know, what was Achenarten's relationship to these men when he was growing up?

Because I can't get past the feeling of personal vendettas going on here on that kind of Stalinist level as well, you know, really going for the people who matter.

So I suppose if we run a scenario that under the age in Amenhotep III, the high priest of Amun and the high priest of Ptah had an ordinate influence at court, and maybe were dismissing Akhenaten with his bizarre ways, then of course it's all about comeback, isn't it?

You know, and retribution.

Your life doesn't matter at all.

It has no interest in you.

And really, you're not encouraged to offer to the son.

You're encouraged to offer to Akhenaten.

He is the intercessor.

He is the only one who can hear the son and the son speaks to him and he speaks back to the son.

So it's not at all this idea of personal faith.

He's not asking for that from anyone.

And one of the things I think that's really difficult is

is that mart, a concept which is absolutely central to Egypt's theology, mart means truth, order, balance, justice.

She's represented as a young girl with a feather on her head, a delicate thing that could easily be broken.

What happens to Mart in this new theology?