For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

  • @kromem
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    31 year ago

    I’ve grown increasingly convinced Nefertiti served as inspiration for later stories about Helen of Troy, so I’d very much be interested in seeing the arrival of “beautiful woman who arrived” at Pharoh’s court, and the way the only woman ever depicted in the smiting pose in Egyptian history carried herself into a dangerous new environment.

    What charm and wit did she possess such that Akhenaten felt the need to both acknowledge in the boundary stelae at Armana that she got everything she desired but to adamantly deny that the idea for the city was hers?

    How much of reworking the entirety of Egypt’s religion into a solar cult was the result of her influence, and just how did she see her role in that paradigm?

    I have many questions about her that I’d probably have answered with 24 hours of being a fly on the wall observing her and her husband’s interactions.