Nefertiti's Face
The Creation of an Icon
$34.68
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2020
Summary
More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the ‘heretic pharaoh’ Akhenaten. Plastered and painted, Nefertiti’s bust depicted an extraordinarily beautiful woman. However, Akhenaten’s reign was drawing to an end, and the royal family was soon to be written out of Egypt’s official history. Not long after its creation the stone Nefertiti was locked in a storeroom and forgotten.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781250518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1781250510 |
| Author: | Joyce Tyldesley |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Warm and insightful * History Revealed *Breezily readable – Ben East * The Observer *This book’s narrative crackles into life … plunges us into an atmosphere thick with mandarin intrigue, gossip, erotic longing and winged eyeliner * Guardian *Tyldesley’s strength has always been her storytelling * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Tyldesley is a Reader in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Research Associate of the Manchester Museum. She is the author of many books on ancient Egypt, including Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and Tutankhamen’s Curse: The Developing History of an Egyptian King, which won the 2014 Felicia A. Holton Book Award given by the Archaeological Institute of America.
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