Nicholas Reeves is the director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, Valley of the Kings, and the curator of Egyptian and classical art at Eton College.
'A tremendous read ... brings factional division in ancient Egypt vividly to life' - Birmingham Post ' Reeves leads the reader adeptly through archaeological finds and the latest research on the Amarna period ... an entertaining and informative volume' - Times Higher Education 'Presents ingenious archaeology as a racy, irresistible detective story full of hidden clues (and bodies), magic geometry and ruthlessness masked as mysticism' - New York Times Book Review