Research

Geography of the Series

In brief

Why the story moves between Akhetaten and Memphis.

Naming Ancient Egypt

In brief

How the series renders ancient names for modern readers.

Healers, Poisons & the Physician’s Art

In brief

Medicine and poison in the world of the investigation.

Scribes, Brushes & Bureaucracy

In brief

The document-driven state that makes Nefertiti’s method work.

Akhenaten & the Aten

In brief

The pharaoh who set aside the gods of Egypt for a single sun.

Amarna Art

In brief

The radical naturalism of the Amarna style, and what it was for.

The Royal Women

In brief

Tiye, Nefertiti, and the daughters whose power the record half-conceals.

Evidence & Power

In brief

The forensic and documentary record Nefertiti reads in the novels.

Succession & Aftermath

In brief

How the line of Amenhotep III was broken, and by whom.

The Royal Family Tree

In brief

The Amarna dynasty as the DNA evidence and the series read it.

Who Was Nefer­neferu­aten?

In brief

The female pharaoh between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun.

Horemheb

In brief

The general who erased the Amarna kings and closed the dynasty.

Damnatio Memoriae

In brief

How the Amarna kings were erased — and whether anyone came back.

Crowns of the Amarna Age

In brief

Royal headgear as politics — from the paired crowns of the Two Lands to the altered thrones of the succession.

The Egyptian Calendar

In brief

Three seasons, 365 days, and no leap year — how Egypt kept time, and why the seasons wandered.

The Deben Economy

In brief

One of the ancient world’s great economies ran without a single coin — weights, rations, and copper by the deben.

Death & the Afterlife

In brief

The journey behind the mysteries: ka, ba, the judgment — and why erasing a name was violence against eternity.