{"product_id":"nefertiti-and-the-end-of-michael-mcgilbourne-9798198430440","title":"Nefertiti and the End of Akhetaten: The Lost Years of Queen Nefertiti Egypt 1345 BCE","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Lost Years of Queen Nefertiti Egypt 1345 BCE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery person who came before you - through plague, war, famine, and flood - lived long enough to pass forward what was necessary for you to exist. You did not begin when you were born. You began when humanity began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything that happened between that beginning and this moment is not the past in any abstract sense. It is the story of the making of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes you to one of the most extraordinary moments in that story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEgypt. 1345 BCE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pharaoh erases the old gods. His name is \u003cb\u003eAkhenaten\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003e\"Effective for the Aten\"\u003c\/i\u003e - and he builds a new capital from empty desert and calls it \u003cb\u003eAkhetaten\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"Horizon of the Aten,\"\u003c\/i\u003e the city known today as \u003cb\u003eAmarna\u003c\/b\u003e. One god now - the sun. And in a sculptor's workshop, the queen Nefertiti sits to have her face made in stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe most famous face of the ancient world was never finished - and was never meant to be seen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arguments about why have never stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNefertiti and the End of Akhetaten\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it meant to be inside that moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot as the pharaoh. Not as the queen. But as the ordinary boy - the \u003ci\u003epolisher\u003c\/i\u003e who prepared her face in painted limestone, and one morning watched his master close the studio door and leave her on a shelf in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat did the people who made her \u003cb\u003eknow\u003c\/b\u003e?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat lasts when a god is forgotten and a city turns to sand?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is the difference between \u003ci\u003ea portrait\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ea person\u003c\/i\u003e - when a craftsman saw no difference at all?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe facts are extraordinary enough.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bust was carved around 1345 BCE in the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, in Akhetaten - the city Akhenaten raised and abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was found face-down in the rubble of that workshop in 1912 - preserved after 3,300 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts right eye is inlaid with quartz crystal. Its left socket is empty. The crystal was never set, and has never been found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkhenaten's name was struck from the king-lists. His city was quarried to nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the face remained.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory is not a sequence of dates.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the record of billions of lives lived forward through a present as urgent as your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn over the Nile. Bread and beer in a workers' street. The dry hiss of a stone on limestone. A hymn rising to a god no one would remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were curious about the same things we are. They \u003ci\u003emade\u003c\/i\u003e something that is still asking us questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor homeschooling families: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are already doing the most important thing - putting the story of humanity directly into your children's hands. The Beyond His Story We Stand series was written for you. Each book takes one moment in human history and makes it lived rather than memorised, felt rather than filed away. Not a textbook. Not a syllabus. A story your child will not want to put down - and that will leave them asking the questions that no curriculum can generate for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe questions that only wonder produces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNefertiti and the End of Akhetaten\u003c\/i\u003e - part of the Beyond His Story We Stand series, a chronological journey through human history, told through the eyes of the people official history forgot to record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe empire fell. The god was forgotten. The hand that made her closed the door. And still, three thousand years later, she is looking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGilbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198430440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d","brand":"Michael McGilbourne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659944833279,"sku":"9798198430440","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nefertiti-and-the-end-of-michael-mcgilbourne-9798198430440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}