Egypt 1290 BCE

It is three generations since Egypt was torn apart by the rule of the enigmatic Pharaoh Akhenaten, who eviscerated the might of the ancient priesthood and moved the centre of political and religious power 250 miles North from Thebes to the new city of Armana on the Nile banks.

The rulers of the 19th Dynasty are determined to reverse the damage done by the heretic Pharaoh.  Seti I begins to restore Egypt’s military might to face a changed world.  This ruthless outward focus is a vivid contrast to Akhenaten’s peaceful but materially damaging reign.

Akhenaten is long dead, but what of his mystic religion?  Is nothing left of his radical teaching, his doomed attempt to replace the ancient religions of the once-noble priesthood…