CONTENTS
Atlas ..................... XI
Acknowledgments ............................... XIX
Note to the Reader .......................... XXI
Chronology ..................................... XXIII
1. Land of Desert and Nile ............................. 1
2. The Amarna Interlude ......................... 12
The Founding of the New Kingdom ..................... 13
Eighteenth-Dynasty Kingship........................... 16
Amunhotep III: The King as Solar Disk ............................... 19
Akhenaten: The Solar Disk as King ................................ 24
Four Features of Atenism ................................ 27
Aket-aten: A New Capital ..................................... 28
The "Amarna" Style of Art ....................... 30
Proscription of Other Deities .............................. 32
The Importance of Women at Amarna ............................ 34
Atenism: Re-creation of Creation ........................ 36
The Location of Akhet-aten: The Home of the Ogdoad ............................ 37
Akhenaten as Creator Deity ............................... 40
The Gods Have Not Yet Been Born ..................................... 42
The Female Light Powers ......................................... 43
Ankh(et)kheperure Nefemeferuaten and Smenkhkare:
The Ephemeral Kings ......................................... 44
Tutankhamun: The Boy King ....................................... 47
After Tutankhamun: Aye ............................................. 51
Horemhab: The General ........................................ 54
3. Trampling the Nine Bows: Military Forces and Weaponry
Branches of the Egyptian Military.......................... 60
Weapons and Armor.................................. 70
Horses and Chariots ................................. 77
War Dogs .............................. 80
Clothing, Armor, and Defensive Weapons ................................ 81
Signaling Equipment ................................ 83
Fortifications, Camps, and Siege Technology.............................. 85
4. Land of Gold: The Southern Empire ................................ 91
Egyptian Fortifications in Nubia ................................... 93
Tke Southern Border of the New Kingdom .................................. 102
The Viceroys of Nubia .................................... 106
Amarna Cities in Nubia .......................................... 110
The Tntankhamun Stela from Kurkur Oasis ................................... 113
Nubian Wars of the Amarna Period ............................. 117
The Spoils of Battle: Durbars of Akhenaim and Tutankhamun ................................... 125
Tke Nubian Experience of Colonization ...................................... 131
5. Wretched Asiatics: The Northern Empire .............................. 137
Prelude to Amarna: Early Eighteenth-Dynasty Wars with Mitanni ................................. 139
The Egyptian Empire in Syria-Palestine ..................................... 142
The Amarna Letters ....................................... 147
"The Vile Dog of Amurru" .................................... 156
The Fall of Sumur and the Great Syrian Campaign .................................... 161
The Reaipoliak of Akhenaten .................. 170
Akhenaten's Attack on Kadesh .................................... 172
The Asiatic War of Tutankhamun .................................... 178
Affair of the Egyptian Queen ...................................................... 184
6. Uniting the Two Lands: Domestic Security
and the Army in Peacetime ........................................ 187
Akhenaten's Domestic Policy ............................................ 189
Police and Military Installations at Akhet-aten ............................... 191
The Western Frontier ............................................ 196
Corps of Engineers ................................ 200
Naval and Port Security ................................... 201
Religious Functions of the Military....................................... 204
Epilogue ............................................ 211
Notes .......................................................... 213
Further Reading .................................................... 275
Index ................................................................. 277