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Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty

Valley of the Kings Series, Book 1

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Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty

By: Terrance Coffey
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
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After the untimely death of his older brother, six-year-old Prince Amenhotep IV becomes the unlikely heir to the Egyptian throne, the most powerful kingship in the ancient world. By the time he becomes pharaoh over a decade later, the growing influence of the wealthy and corrupt Amun priesthood threatens to undermine his sovereignty.

Desperate to maintain power, Amenhotep outlaws the Amun religion, renames himself Akenaten, and proclaims himself the living incarnation of a single, all-powerful deity - the Aten, or sun. With the help of his headstrong mother, Queen Ty, and his beautiful wife, Nefertiti, Akenaten erects a new capital in the desert and entices thousands of citizens to uproot their lives and join him there. But the magnificent new capital harbors a host of new threats: betrayals, curses, conniving relatives, murderous jealousies, plagues, famine, hidden heretics, and foreign enemies.

Inspired by the Hittite and Amarna letters of the 14th century B.C.E., Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty is a novel of intrigue, passion, and betrayal, resurrecting the thrilling story of a singular leader whose beliefs were both visionary and disastrous.

©2016 Terry Coffey (P)2017 Tantor Action & Adventure Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Royalty Pharaoh Biography Middle East Ancient Egypt Fiction
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what a brilliant book, I was hooked from the beginning. glad I found it, a great listen

fascinating

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I love ancient Egyptian history, and particularly liked what I learned about Ay and the Amarna period, and thought it would make a good story, then I found this book and it did just that!

Great book!

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Obviously some liberties in regards to history were taken, however all in all it was fascinating. Male narrators doing female characters remains cringey, but at least I was able to differ between the multiple female characters this time!

Interesting and entertaining

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Made the mistake of starting this just before going to sleep… didn’t sleep as couldn’t stop listening. Looking forward to then next in this series

Brilliant

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I have enjoyed interpretation of the life of Akenaten, but no one grisly knows how he and his wife died . They probably never will. He was quite mad though from the little they do know. Narrative was said to have been terrified of him near the end, but this book gives logical reasons I am going to look for book two now. Patricia Welsh

A better interpretation than most of Akenaten & Nefratiti

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