Renown Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson, the author ofAmarna Sunset,looks at how Akhenaten's experiment with monotheism beganThe latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypts political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south.
In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion.