MOSES PHARAOH OF EGYPT

The Mystery of Akhenaten Resolved

Pub. Palladin / HarperCollins 1990

This inspired re-interpretation of Biblical and Egyptian history provides dramatic evidence that the prophet Moses and the revolutionary Pharaoh of Egypt, Akhenaten, were one and the same person. Many mysteries surround the Pharaoh. Crucially, how was it that Akhenaten wa j able to abolish the Egyptian religious system, with its numerous, tangible deitie·;, and replace it with a single God, the Aten, who had no image or form?

Ahmed Osman's controversial theories are strongly backed by recent archaeological and historical evidence and thoroughly explained in this ground - breaking work. Among other things, Osman contends that Akhenaten/Moses was brought up by Israelite relatives, ruled Egypt for seventeen years and, after being forced to abdicate, engaged in a failed attempt to regain the throne.

Moses: Pharaoh c~fEgypt is the Exodus story re-told. It is a brilliant, convincing new account of the origins of Semitic religion that will challenge scholars and fascinate a wide historically-minded readership.

'Osman goes further than Freud...he reconstructs a new version of the story from recorded events on the walls of Egyptian temples and compares the writings and observations of Egyptologists to the Bible and the Koran'

THE INDEPENDENT 'The "historical Moses" is Osman's latest myth-busting bombshell' sun~rUuC~,RR~sPoN~DEm Front cover photographs show the Colossus of Memnon in the Valley of the Kings O Stephanie Colasanti. and the head of Akhenaten in the ligyptisches Museum, Staatliche Museen PreussischerXulturbesitz. Berlin. Photograph by Margarete BOsing