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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
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I might come back to this but I doubt it.
I wanted something that gave me facts- or as close to facts as we have at the moment. You know, what archeologists have found over the years and when, and what do we know about Akhenaten and Nefertiti's reign? What's the best guess about this famous ancient couple? How do other Egyptologists think it all went down and how does that differ (if at all) from what you think?
But the authors seem to be trying their hands at giving the reader a bit of historical fiction and have inserted storyline "scenes".
The one that stuck out to me was the queen getting pregnant by her god-husband. What?
You obviously know that nothing that happened in said scene is based in reality and it's just a way to engage the reader and put them in ancient Egypt, but I find this kind of thing annoying. I just want to learn something and you're dragging it out with some sort of might-have-been fairytale.
Blech.
I might come back to this but I doubt it.
I wanted something that gave me facts- or as close to facts as we have at the moment. You know, what archeologists have found over the years and when, and what do we know about Akhenaten and Nefertiti's reign? What's the best guess about this famous ancient couple? How do other Egyptologists think it all went down and how does that differ (if at all) from what you think?
But the authors seem to be trying their hands at giving the reader a bit of historical fiction and have inserted storyline "scenes".
The one that stuck out to me was the queen getting pregnant by her god-husband. What?
You obviously know that nothing that happened in said scene is based in reality and it's just a way to engage the reader and put them in ancient Egypt, but I find this kind of thing annoying. I just want to learn something and you're dragging it out with some sort of might-have-been fairytale.
Blech.
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May 22, 2024 08:12AM
Ironic that your attempt to learn something was marred by the writer's attempts to inject fictional drama :D
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Isn't it? They had this disclaimer stating that they were injecting some situations that they sort of imagined could happen but it just completely ruined the whole thing for me.But I'm sure there are plenty of readers who would appreciate what they were trying to do.
I've found one on Audible that might be more what I'm looking for, so we shall see.
carol. wrote: "I hope the Audible works for you!"The History of Ancient Egypt is what I'm looking at right now.
Oh, that does look interesting, especially the way they note, 'as other" culturally-speaking. Hopefully they won't have too many fantasy scenarios to try and convince the reader of that position. Also, good morning!
Good morning, indeed. Is it morning where you are?
it is! i am up early. I think it was 6:15 when I started looking at goodreads :D
And here I am about to do it alllll over again... lol
😁 I slept in today, because I was up later reading... Gunmetal Magic. I 