[Bookworm_Girl]

Meriamun sets off on a quest for the truth, "a path that has no beginning and no end, for it will always be extended by those who have a passion for eternal truth." The eyewitness testimonies contain some consistencies suggesting the truth yet expose many biases. The reader is left uncertain and must contemplate the truth. I wish the story had not ended so abruptly. I would have liked to hear what Meriamun & Father discussed afterward! I enjoyed their chat at the beginning of the book.

Today, so many centuries removed from events, the historical record is still uncertain and experts can't agree. Modern archaeological & scientific evidence continues to support and refute theories. Here is an interesting article from Smithsonian Magazine.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...656174/?no-ist

I liked this paragraph in particular.

Spoiler:

Early Egyptologists saw in Akhenaten's approach the first stirring of the great monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to come. "Not a rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging to this new worship," wrote Flinders Petrie, a British archaeologist who dug at Akhenaten's capital in the early 1890s. Sigmund Freud even argued that Moses was an Egyptian priest who spread the religion of Aten. There is, of course, no evidence linking the cult of Aten to today's monotheisic beliefs, and no archaeological evidence of Hebrew tribes appears until two centuries after the pharaoh's death. Nor do scholars agree on what accounted for Akhenaten's beliefs. "As a result," says Egyptologist Betsy Bryan at Johns Hopkins University, "people tend to allow their fantasies to run wild."