[VI.]
THE THIRTEENTH TO THE FIFTEENTH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF AKHNATON.
“The episode of the retirement of the king with his whole court to the new palace and city, ... and the strange life of religious and artistic propaganda which he led there, ... is one of the most curious and interesting in the history of the world.”—Budge: ‘History of Egypt.’
1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELIGION OF ATON.
In the Pharaoh’s hymn to the Aton we read these words—
“Thou didst create the earth according to Thy desire, ...
The countries of Syria and Nubia,