Editing Amarna (section)

=== Fictional ===
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''The Painted Queen''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Peters|first=Elizabeth|title=The Painted Queen|publisher=HarperLuxe|year=2017|isbn=978-0062201362}}</ref> written by the famous Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. [[Barbara Mertz]] is the most recent installment to the [[Amelia Peabody series|Amelia Peabody]] novels after the author's passing in 2013. Elizabeth Peters was a school trained archaeologist, but was persuaded by her male colleagues that a woman was not to be an archaeologist, so "she created characters based on those misogynistic Egyptologists..."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Parcak|first=Sarah|title=Archaeology From Space: How The Future Shapes Our Past|publisher=Henry Holt|year=2019|pages=188}}</ref> as stated by [[Sarah Parcak]], a female archaeologist that specializes in [[remote sensing]]. The adventure stars a female archaeologist Amelia Peabody and the mystery of the missing Bust of Nefertiti. The Painted Queen takes place in the 1912, several years after the actual excavations at Amarna, when excavations in Egypt are solely European, local hires, or looters. Like all good mystery novels, there is humor, twists, and turns, and a predictable ending of a solved case.

''Nefertiti'' by [[Michelle Moran]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Moran|first=Michelle|title=Nefertiti|publisher=Broadway Books|year=2009|isbn=978-0307718709}}</ref> is a historical fiction work that guides the reader from the perspective of Queen Nefertiti and her younger sister [[Mutnedjmet|Mutnodjmet]]. The story follows the timeline from her time in Thebes to Amarna and after Akhenaten's death. [[Nefertiti]] was the Chief wife in Akhenaten's court or haram. Though she is well known by name, as many historical female role models, her story is often overlooked for masculine rulers. Michelle Moran webs her story of the queen and her sister with political secrets, loss of innocence, and female strength in a patriarchal society.