Nefertiti Sun God Book Review

Kennedy Kelly-Hooks Period 5 October 20th, 2012 Tyldesley, Joyce A. Nefertiti Egypts Sun business atomic number 82er. London Viking, 1998. Print. In the dates of Ancient Egypt women did not feel a prominent role in society. Women rarely had power and most(prenominal) systems were patriarchal. Queens in Ancient Egypt were mainly observers and supporters of their husband. In Joyce A. Tyldesleys Nefertiti Egypts Sun Queen the wife of Amenhotep IV and Queen of Egypt, Nefertiti, played a more g exclusively overning role in her marriage as well as in society.Nefertiti was seen as an equal to her husband as the women who came before her had not been seen before. The bear Nefertiti Egypts Sun Queen covered a time span of 1386 BCE to most 1330 BCE. The countersign begins by explaining the royal family hi recital of Egypt before Nefertiti and Amenhotep IV. It gives background on the parents of Amenhotep three around the father of Amenhotep IV, which helps to explain ideas discussed later on in the book. Amenhoteps deuce-ace mother supposedly at that time had an affair with the god Amen-Re a sun god who requested the son be named after his grandfather.After explaining the family kinetics and how Queen Tiy also was a woman of power who gave Amenhotep IV the take in that women were equal, it begins to peace together the life of Nefertiti. There are no records of her childishness solely that was typical in that time period for there to be no knowledge of a consorts childhood. Her parents remained unknown although they do eat up apparent theories on who her parents were and who Nefertitis sister was. further since the term sister was so more often than not used back then nobody can be sure.The book describes the changes that Amenhotep IV who was later called Akhenaten and Nefertiti made in Egypt and how other people may have viewed them to the mysterious death of Nefertiti. Nefertiti and Amenhotep IV created a new righteousness which is one of the first monotheistic religions and created a new capital Armana. still now after their deaths their monuments and drawings were undone. The author of this story created the first biography of Nefertiti through archeologic and textual evidence. Joyce Tyldesley who is originally from England has create verbally many iographies on women from Ancient Egypt. In the story she provides many views on the life of Nefertiti. Nefertiti in the story is exposit as the first woman to be seen equally to an Egyptian king. Nefertiti was seen as a power figure just as very much as her husband was. She was flush apart of Akhenatens religion with the main god world Aten. Also Akhenaten and Nefertiti were seen as two halves of one whole. The two completed distributively other as seen in statues. Nefertiti was also the same size as her husband in pictures and statues which had never been done before.Queens were usually women who just back up their husband and gave him children, as well as observing wh at he does. nevertheless Nefertiti played an active role in making decisions and could perform sacrifices just like a man. In some pictures she is even seen in a c lothing that a king would wear. Akhenatens mother had also played a major role and had a larger handle on Egypt than Amenhotep III who had easily let his wife take over his role. But even Queen Tiy was not seen as a complete equal as Nefertiti was.The author of this biography provides many different views that some scholars might have had about Nefertitis life. There are theories surrounding the death of Nefertiti that have changed over time. Some people believe that she never died around the time that she was replaced as Queen and just moved on to a different location. But some have said there was a golden casket that was moved from the kings home and was never seen again. There is writing that appears to be hers that was written to a Hittite king after her death supposedly happened.Some swan she was banished possibly from her husband after he realized she could give him no sons to inherit his throne. But that theory is highly improbable. Also the fate of Nefertitis sister after leaving the court is she either died or that she was sent somewhere else to be married. Nefertitis parents were believed by some to be a Royal family because in their tomb there is a drawing of Nefertiti and Akhenaten giving the couple gold. however others believe her mother was one of the kings wives or that Nefertiti was a orphan. But she was by all odds not the daughter of a king.Scholars may have a hassle accepting this book because although most of the story is supported by probable facts there is no way to be only sure of all the book because so much about Nefertitis life was either destroyed or unknown. We know she was the powerful wife of Akhenaten and gave him six daughters. But we do not know of her death or origin. Archeologists have yet to muster up her body. The descriptions of her are strictly based of drawings and texts written in other peoples tombs. Scholars would submit this book is not very(prenominal) reliable and you cannot trust every tidings from it.There is evidence that some of the information in the book is true but the rest is just like pieces being put together on what we believed to have happened. Nefertiti Egypts Sun God was an interesting read and gave a lot of detail along with evidence on Nefertitis life. However the book was very dry and hard to get into. It would describe the elements of Egyptian housing and some temples prior to their time which was not relevant to the story which made it that much harder to read. Some information was thrown into the book without a thought on how it would completely fit in.But the book had an interesting way of telling the story of Nefertiti which helped me form my own individual opinion about her. The book explained the events that lead to the ideas that pushed Akhenaten and Nefertiti to create a monotheistic religion an d move the capital to Armana. It gave tidy background that helped me piece together Nefertitis life and what a big push-down stack her achievements of being worshipped and respected by many in that time was. The book was overall a good read for those who really deprivation to learn about Nefertiti in a way that was not completely based off of theories.