An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

27. Tutankhamun

March 01, 2021

Description

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook ask why Tutankhamun remains the best known of the Egyptian pharaohs. They examine the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 and discuss Tutankhamun’s...
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Books Referenced

Moses and Monotheism

Author: Sigmund Freud

Context:

Discussed as Freud's last book, in which he theorizes about the connection between Akhenaten and Moses, suggesting Moses was originally an Egyptian Atonist priest who led the Hebrews out of Egypt

Joseph and His Brothers

Author: Thomas Mann

Context:

Mentioned as an example of the intellectual and cultural afterlife of the Akhenaten story, alongside Philip Glass's opera about Akhenaten

Moses the Egyptian

Author: Jan Assmann

Context:

Described as a 'fantastic book' by the German Egyptologist from Heidelberg, which examines how Freud interpreted the Akhenaten-Moses connection and traces it back to the Egyptian period, including stories from the Ptolemaic period