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Nefertiti Resurrected

The royal couple arrives to the acclaim of their subjects, soon to number 50,000.
As a sign of the new times, they seem to adopt an informality never before displayed by royalty.
Freed from tradition, the royal couple is poised to create a new Egypt.
The country hovers on the brink of upheaval.
They'd taken away the traditional gods by Year Five, and they'd simply replaced the gods with themselves.
The only way effectively to reach the Aten, to reach the gods, was through the royal family.
You had to worship them, and they would, in turn, pass on your best wishes to the Aten.
In Amarna's ruins, Joann looks for clues to Nefertiti's life.

Ancient art depicts a happy family playing with their daughters.
The loving couple, the queen ever at the king's side.
The art style itself is more natural than ever before.
From Amarna comes the most famous image ever made of Nefertiti.
But how realistic was this bust?
Joann is seeking the woman behind the image.
In a nobleman's tomb beneath the ruined city, she scrutinizes paintings for clues to Nefertiti's life.
So, here I am entering the first chamber of this wonderfully well carved rock cut tomb.
Some wonderful carvings on here.
It 's amazing, really, really amazing.
I got two chariot riders here, one on the left, one on the right, and just checking out the hieroglyphs.