Table of Contents
Map of Egypt ix
Map of Waset x
Map of Akhet-Aten xi
Family Tree of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty xii
Cast of Characters xiii
Prologue xv
I The Parents: Amunhotep III and Tiye
1 A Divine Conception 3
2 An Angry Goddess 13
3 Ancient Rites 24
II Waset: A New Horizon
4 A Mysterious Prince 39
5 The Beautiful One Has Come 47
6 Transformation 51
7 The Unique God 59
8 A Royal Warrior 66
9 A Bustling Quarry 72
10 City of the Sun 76
11 An Erudite Icing 84
12 A Temple of her Own 97
13 A Precocious Jubilee 105
14 Strange Colossi 110
III Akhet-Aten: The Final Horizon
15 "This Is It!" 123
16 Horizon of Aten 133
17 Chariot of Solar Fire 145
18 A Holy Place in the Sun 154
IV Gods on Earth: The Trinity
19 Secret Knowledge 171
20 One Who Contains Millions 176
21 My God Who Fashioned Me 188
22 Beauty Incarnate 193
23 A Holy Family 203
24 Performing Princesses 214
25 Love Divine 219
V Twilight of the Goo: Death and Transfiguration
26 Rulers of the World 227
27 Duplicity and Diplomacy 237
28 None Beside Him 244
29 Tragedy Strikes 253
30 Successors 259
31 Afterlife 273
Epilogue 281
Acknowledgments 287
Appendix: Translation of the Great Hymn to Aten 289
Chronology of Ancient Egypt 293
Bibliographic Essays 295
Notes 345
Credits/Permissions 351
Index 353