Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife (Lives and Afterlives) Hardcover – October 6, 2020

the book is very well worth readingthese facts are new to mefacial reconstruction of younger lady p94 looks close to NefertitiJoann Fletcher p130 used x-ray imaging plus 3 d imaging to have a 2 d picture of younger lady made see note 112 to view picture onlinepossible 2 undiscovered tombs near Tut's tomb p99, three of Nefertiti's daughters were buried in the Amarnaroyaj tomb nothing is known as to what happened to them .worker's cemetery p61 see kara cooney when women ruled the world p183 workers teens,underfed ,repetitive stress injuries,repeated traumas, buried without grave goods as many as six to a grave try googling amarna worker cemeteries.there are many other also kara cooney's the woman who would be king provides insight into what Nefertiti's life was like particularly p40 to p50Dodson's book needs to be read carefully probably several times get the most out of it.chapters1. Cradle of Nefertiti Possible ancestry , life to Akhenaten year 42. Queen of Egypt Amarna to year 123. Crowned Queen and Pharaoh year 12 to 17 plos 3 years4. Limbo rulers of Aten period erased from history5. Resurrection rulers rediscovered , bust of Nefertiti , modern iconNote someone choose to carefully leave Nefertiti's bust "a masterpiece" in sculptor's house at Amarna .

As with all of Dodson's books, Nefertiti is evidence based and fluff free. There is no dull perfunctory rehash of Egyptian history prior to addressing the subject and speculation is minimal and evidence based. The illustrations are well selected and tied directly to the text. Highly recommended for anyone with a serious interest in ancient Egypt.

A wonderful, easy-to-read, well-illustrated new book by Egyptologist Aiden Dodson. I've always been interested in Nefertiti's story & the author does a fine job of telling it.

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I bought it for a friend and she loved it.

Wish I could recommend this book--but can't. It started out [and rather shockingly] on the wrong foot from the very preface by actually stating "assuming the DNA results are, in fact, "real".” While Dodson says that "Most such matters of genetics are beyond the ken of a mere Egyptologist" that doesn't stop him and others from casting shade on the credibility of people of note in that field. What they are basically implying is that the DNA of several generations of one family, where the genes are passed down in recombination from one generation to another--could be faked or be the result of “contamination” when actual footage exists of an Egyptian microbiologist boring a hole in the leg of Tutankhamun in order to get a sample from inside bone, which could not possibly be contaminated by modern DNA. Added to that, the precautions taken against contamination are very rigorous in DNA labs. Dodson maintained that other conclusions about the relationships of the individuals could be reached, without any discussion of how and why. 2010 was the year of the publication of the Cairo DNA study and some people evidently seize on the fact that some naysayers ten years ago could not believe that reliable data could be gleaned from ancient or degraded remains. I don't think they realize just how much testing of ancient specimens has gone on in the past decade with the naysaying long since muted, except for in the Egyptological community, which hasn't bothered to keep abreast of any of it. For example, five years later, the work was done on the mysterious Tarim Basin mummies. .Dodson appears to believe that the "Younger Lady" from KV35 is Nefertiti and that Tutankhamun is her son--but later claims the old standby that Ay could be the father of Nefertiti--when Tut has no other grandparents in his DNA besides Amunhotep III and Queen Tiye! Come on, it's not rocket science—time to play catch-up, Egyptologists! This is the most conservative of books, IMO, much of which is the same opinions about the Amarna Era I read in books 20 years ago. Of course, in order to maintain those old stances, the DNA testing can't be reliable--right? At the same time, those of us who do believe that nothing is preventing Nefertiti from really having been the sister of Akhenaten are accused of "special pleading" because Dodson puts in bold type that she was not. The fact that, for years, they claimed to be the personifications of Shu and Tefnut, brother and sister deities, part of a “holy trinity” with the sun-god, represented by Amunhotep III--would have been a strange fiction to maintain otherwise. More than once, the author states that some stance is the opinion of the majority. The Bandwagon Fallacy still exists.