Notes
Chapter 5: The Shemsu BenuThe fullest description of the play that went so disastrously wrong in Egypt in 1909 can be found in Tombs, Temples and Ancient Art by Joseph Lindon Smith, edited by his wife, Corrina Smith, pub. University of Oklahoma Press, USA 1956, p.105-15.
Chapter 6: Akhenaten Speaks“Hymn to the Aten” from Ancient Egyptian Religious Beliefs and Practices by Rosalie David published by Routledge, Kegan, Paul, London.
Chapter 7: The Journal“He is not the Sun...” from The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Charles H. S. Davis.
Chapter 10: Akhenaten’s CityFor information about Amarna I have particularly consulted the invaluable guide book Egypt: The Rough Guide by Dan Richardson and Karen O’Brien, pub. by Rough Guides and Penguin, 1993; and the magnificent catalogue of the ex
