Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut’s parentsAkhenaten has been the subject of radically different, often contradictory, biographies. He has been the inspiration for an opera by Philip Glass, an academy-award nominated movie, and the face of his wife Nefertiti in her famous bust has been replaced by that of Beyoncé on t-shirts. Akhenaten has achieved fame as the world’s first individual, as the world’s first monotheist, and as the father of Tutankhamun, the king “who gave his life for tourism” in the witty lyrics of Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live. But who is Akhenaten, really? And what can we actually say about someone who lived three thousand three hundred and fifty years ago?Ancient Egypt has remained uniquely popular from antiquity to the present, and “Egyptomania” shows no signs of abating in the twenty-first century. Egypt’s Golden Couple takes the reader on a journey through excavations and museums, reading hier