Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh (1964)

 For decades I've been fascinated with the Pharaoh Akhnaten (also spelled Akhenaten), who is considered by many the first monotheist. In 1987 I got on CD the opera on him by Philip Glass. I haven't yet experienced this opera live, but maybe someday. It was performed a few years ago at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Here's a 1-minute trailer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSn_UAquOfw

At some point I picked up a nice used copy of Silverberg's book Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh. Although written for intelligent teenagers, this book works well for older people too as a page-turning exploration of the subject. The price of this book was $5.50 back in 1964, which adjusted for inflation means that it was about a fifty dollar book in today's money. But it's a deluxe volume, nicely bound, with an appealing cover, a map of Ancient Egypt as the end papers, a few drawings inside, as well as a whole section of photos on glossy paper. Including the chronology, bibliography, and index the book is 235 pages long, and my guess is that the main text is about 80,000 words in length. This was a time when RS was getting more ambitious with his non-fiction books, and this one is more serious than the relatively breezy Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations of just two years before.

In the 1990s there was a documentary on Akhnaten that has the same title as Silverberg's book. Maybe there was some influence? One the experts interviewed is the noted Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier, who I was fortunate to get to meet twenty years ago. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPlHwTXi7tk&t=1089s

Anyway, here's what RS writes on page 135 about the end of Akhnaten's reign:

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