Catch Nefertiti: An Archaeological Biography Imagined By Philipp Vandenberg Expressed As Print

is en blijft een van de meest raadselachtige vrouwen uit de wereldgeschiedenis, Waar zij vandaan kwam, hoe en waar haar opwindende 'leven tot een einde kwam we zullen de waarheid wel nooit te weten komen.
Alleen al haar naam 'Nefertete de schoonheid die opdoemt is voor verschillende uitleg vatbaar, Was deze vrouw, van wie de tijdloze schoonheid ons nog steeds fascineert, een geschenk van de goden Of duidt haar naam erop dat zij uit een verband afkomstig was en, Egypte een excentrieke farao huwde In eik geval bleek zij geenszins het bevallige speeltje dat haar echtgenoot, farao Achnätòn, verwachtte: zij was in feite degene die de staat bestuurde en werd als een godin vereerd.
In haar korte leven bevorderde zij de cultuur en de bouwkunst, onttroonde de oude goden en schiep het klimaat voor het begin van een nieuw tijdperk.
Een archeologische biografie van een koningin van wereldallure, This book wasn't nearly as imformitive as I thought it should have been, Most of it seemed to be focusing on speculation and theories, I have a hard time calling this a nonfiction when most of it was based on speculation, There is little information known for sure about Nefertiti, I don't have a problem with hypothizing about her life and such, but if so, it should have been clearly stated that it is more speculation than fact.
Beware when reading this book! Do not take it for the entire truth! This book was written inand a lot of new findings have altered some of the results within here.
This only represents a single string of theories among many others, There are a lot of things about Nefertiti that today is a mystery but that is clear as day in this book like Nefertiti's origin, her connection with Amenhotep III and her demise.
I am, of course, not saying that he is entirely wrong, I'm just saying that this is but one of the many ways to interpret the archeological findings, Interesting, but dated and lacking evidence, Nefertiti: An Archaeological Biography works neither as a reference book nor as a work of historical fiction, though it is closer to succeeding at the latter than existing as an objective and rational look at the evidence.


Written infirst translated into English in, Philipp Vandenberg's Nefertiti is apage sketch on what the author thinks Nefertiti's life was like.
Published when it was, it is natural that Vandenberg does not draw on the most recent theories on Nefertiti and Amarna indeed, he seems to be writing from a time when Nefertiti was still largely considered to be a Mitanni princess and Kiya was yet to be discovered.


Even considering this, Vandenberg's "archaeological biography" is particularly light on facts or acknowledgement of existing evidences, Sure, sometimes Vandenberg sometimes references a theory that he then adopts, but he never explains why he does this whether it makes more sense or has more evidence supporting it.
Nope, it's "here is a theory, this now our truth for the rest of the book" and if I'm honest, I think Vandenberg picks the theories he does because they're more dramatic and/or shocking.


Even fringe theories, such as Immanuel Velikovsky's assertion that Akhenaten was Oedipus is given no interrogation as Vandenberg accepts it as fact and runs with it.


So, is it any better as a work of historical fiction No, not really, Certainly, it has the ingredients to be a historically inaccurate riproaring yarn I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was a major source for Pauline Gedge's The Twelfth Transforming, but atpages, it reads more like a summary of events with a few academic or pseudoacademic references tossed in.
It lacks the depth to bring the characters and the context to life,

There is one redeeming point though not enough to garner another star, While I don't trust this book anywhere near far as I can throw it it's a very light book, it is easily written and understandable the pages do fly by.


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end of the day, Nefertiti: An Archaeological Biography is a waste of space as a reference book.
If I started picking apart all of the errors and issues found in the book, I'd be ranting about nearly every paragraph.
I have better things to do with my time,
I found some 'facts' incorrect, For one Nefertiti passed BEFORE Akhenaten which is where Smenkhkare comes into it as coregent and also that it was Kiya that is rumoured to be Tut's mother.


It's not a book that I would highly recommend, but by all means it was a good researched book,

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Dawno nie czytałam książki, w której zawarte byłoby tyle błędów merytorycznych, Tłumacz często dodawał przypisy korygujące niektóre z nich, ale też nie zawsze, W praktyce wyglądało to tak: czytam ustęp gt googlujęgt następny fragment gt google, Za każdym razem znajdowałam dementi tez autora, pozwala hulać fantazji na prawo i lewo,

Przykłady Hatszepsut lesbijka, Echnaton biseksualista czy Nefertiti pisząca list do króla hetyckiego o przysłanie jej męża gdy dowiedziono, że słynne listy są autorstwa Ankesenamon lub też połączenie Kiyi i Nefertiti w jedną postać.


Czuję się jakbym zmarnowała mój czas, Lepiej wyniuchać inne pozycje o okresie amarnejskim, Kurcze, naprawdę muszę coś znaleźć bardziej aktualnego w tym temacie,

Edit: Grzebałam jeszcze nieco przy pomocy wujka Google w sprawie listów hetyckich, nie dawało mi to spokoju.
Ponoć faktycznie tradycyjnie uznaje się Ankesenamon za ich autorkę, ale alternatywnie proponuje się/proponowało się również Meritaten i faktycznie Nefertiti, więc tu autor może mieć nieco racji.
Zależy czy założy się, że królowa umarła w trakcie rządów Echantona czy po, Amarna to istny melodramat! Philipp Vandenberg is the pen name of Hans Dietrich Hartel, a German author of fiction and non fiction about the ancient world.
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