National Geographic History - 01 e 02.2022
AKHENATEN’S TOMB The royal tomb of the heretic pharaoh was built east of his capital city, Akhetaten (now known as Amarna). Depi ...
and female traits. Scholars believe this empha- sized Aten as being both father and mother to the Egyptian people. The pharaoh, ...
DIAPHANOUS DRESS Meticulously crafted, a statue from the Amarna period depicts a woman wearing a close-fitting, pleated linen dr ...
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SEARCH FOR NEFERTITI’S TOMB In February 2018 research teams used ground-penetrating radar to scan King Tut’s burial chamber in t ...
Nefertiti’s life after the death of her husband is a subject of great debate among Egyptologists. They agree that she did outliv ...
AGING GRACEFULLY Found at Amarna in 1920, a standing limestone statue depicts Nefertiti in her later years. Sculpted around 1353 ...
THE QUEEN’S MANY FACES Nefertiti’s reign began when she was a teenage girl and is believed to have lasted into middle age. With ...
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UNDAUNTED “By this time the spears of most of them were broken, and they were slaying the Persians with their swords,” recounted ...
50 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 I n early June of 480 b.c., a mighty Persian army crossed the Dardanelles strait on two pontoon bridges ...
At the decisive battles of Plataea and Mycale, the Greek army defeats and definitively expels Persian forces from Greece to brin ...
sources include the Sicilian historian Dio- dorus Siculus (whose first-century b.c. account was based in part on the earlier Gre ...
his half brother, Cleomenes, died heirless. The 300 Spartans with him were an elite cadre whom Leonidas had chosen personally. H ...
Best-Laid Plans Leonidas’s plan was to hold Xerxes at the narrow pass—advantageous terrain that would act as a force multiplier ...
the Greeks and were soon forced to retreat. Xer- xes, watching the battle from a golden throne in the foothills nearby, is said ...
JAMES T CARNEHAN/AGE FOTOSTOCK BETWEEN STONE AND SEA When this memorial to Leonidas was erected at Thermopylae in 1955, the land ...
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58 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 the Persian camp “about the hour when lamps are lit” and marched all night up the trail. Dawn was break ...
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