Akhenaten a pacifist? Not so, according to findings from Toronto’s Egypt Symposium
Despite popular belief that he (Akhenaten) shied away from warfare, Professor Prof. James Hoffmeier, of Trinity International University, found evidence that the heretic-king kept a well-equipped, and supplied, fortress in the Sinai desert. It was located on the east side of the modern day Suez Canal.
How well supplied? Well for starters the fortress had a moat around it, of all things. Secondly, from the sealings found on the site, it seems that all the Amarna pharaohs sent wine out to keep the isolated soldiers provisioned – got to have something to pass away those desert nights!
Excerpted from an aeticle by Owen Jarus for Heritage Key
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