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This is how he describes what the messengers must have felt when they hurried back to Egypt to the new capital of the fanatical king at Tel-el-Amarna, bearing entreaties from the commander-in-chief of the army in Syria to send reinforcements to help to deliver his distant kingdom from the oppression of her enemies." Freddy found the book and opened it.
Michael Ireton had been thrown in close contact with one of the excavators who had formed the camp in the hills behind Tel-el-Amarna they were now both employed in the same Government office in Assiut.
His researches in the neighbourhood of the Fayum at this time commenced to bear fruit; and many questions were answered regarding the ancient Lake Mceris. It was in this season also that the ever memorable excavations conducted at Tel-el-Amarna were first begun.
He told my husband the twofold reason of his wish to make the journey. He believes in the theory that there is a buried treasure in the hills beyond Tel-el-Amarna, where Akhnaton was buried, and I think he also wanted . . . what shall I say? . . . to find himself I suppose I must use that hackneyed phrase for want of a better to find himself in the desert. Wasn't that it?" "Yes.
"And are you now on your way to visit his tomb, Mike? How thrilling!" "Yes," Michael said. He answered her simply, forgetful of the fact that she could only have obtained her information on this point in an underhand manner. "You know where it is?" "He was buried in the hills which lie beyond his city." "Tel-el-Amarna?"
Michael might have talked to the old man, as he had often talked to herself, about the possibility of such a treasure having been hidden by the King when he, Akhnaton, knew that he was dying and when he realized that his new capital of Tel-el-Amarna would not long survive his decease, that the priests of the old religion would do all in their power to obliterate his memory and teachings.
After some effort he aroused a crew of oarsmen, procured a boat, and continued at once to Thebes. Khu-aten Tel-el-Amarna. At sunset on the day after the festivities at the Lady Senci's, Hotep deserted his palace duties and came to the house of Mentu.
But that was not his idea; he wished to spend all his days in the solitude of the desert, so he started his journey at a point half-way between Luxor and Tel-el-Amarna. This was not his first pilgrimage to the eastern desert.
The natives would eventually plunder and steal everything, and if the excavation had all been in the hands of the Egyptian Government, heaven knows where the treasures would be to-day! As it is, Cairo has the finest Egyptian museum of antiquities in the world." "Akhnaton was buried in this valley?" "Yes, in later days in his mother's tomb. His first burial-place was at Tel-el-Amarna." "How odd!
"It was in his reign," Michael said, "that Akhnaton's fair city at Tel-el-Amarna was utterly abandoned; his beautiful decorations, which were intended to illustrate to the people the beauty of God in Nature, were ruthlessly destroyed. His body, which had been laid in the far-away cliffs behind his city, was removed and placed in his mother Queen Thi's tomb in this valley." "What a tragic life!"
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