A few days ago we all went to the Neues Museum, which displays Egyptian and prehistoric artifacts. Of particular interest to me was the holdings of the 18th Dynasty period, my favourite period. Favourite because it was racked by intrigue and revenge, just like the 1980’s Dynasty.
Akhenaten (German spelling because of being in Germany), was a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty and also the creator of the first monotheistic religion the world had ever known, devoted to Aten. He moved the capital, pissed off the priests from all the other temples and dies mysteriously in a water skiing accident on the Nile in the 17th year of his reign (all of this is from memory so before you put it in an essay or bet someone at the pub, I strongly suggest you fact check). Not much survives of him because he was erased from history with his inscriptions hacked off most of his statues and his city abandoned. Some survived
which started the, Akhenaten was an alien (check out his kids) conspiracy theory.
His wife was Nefertiti, winner of the Nile Delta Wet T-Shirt Contest 3500BC. It just so happens that the world famous bust of Nefertiti was at this museum. No photos were allowed so I had to go into another hall, do a commando roll from behind a display case of before and after weight loss clinic shots
and I got the money shot, or so everyone at my “Take Shaky Shots Like a Pro” class tell me.
Hello Kurty goes to Egypt 