The Bronze Age Cold War

A History of Mankind (37)

Akhenaten's era marked a decisive break in Egyptian history, and was followed by a few decades of uncertainty at the top: Horemheb succeeded Ay as pharaoh after some friction, and died without issue, leaving the throne to his vizier Paramesse, who named himself Ramesses I upon assuming power and founded the 19th Dynasty – the first in which pharaohs, fo…