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| Amenhotep III, father of Akhenaten, constructed hundreds of statues to placate Sekhmet, the Lady of Pestilence |
“What
hit this place?” Lucas said, looking around at the untidy array of tombs like open
mouths in the ground. It was a sign of unplanned and therefore hasty burials. He
had seen a pattern of excavation like this before at Amarna where an outbreak
of bubonic plague had struck the population in the reign of the pharaoh
Akhenaten.
“I
knew you’d be here like a shot when I told you about it. The theory that some
kind of pestilence struck Malkata and Thebes in the reign of Amenhotep III is now
looking to be true.”
The
temple of Mut at Karnak and many of the great museums of the world were proof
of it. In a bid to ward off a pandemic, Amenhotep had feverishly produced
hundreds upon hundreds of statues of the lioness goddess Sekhmet, seen as the spreader
of pestilence and the vengeful eye of Ra. He was attempting to placate her and
ward off a terrible blight... 
Excerpt from TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY (Amazon Kindle fiction)
Footnote:
This novel places Egypt's Plagues and The Exodus in the reign/s of Amenhotep and Akhenaten. Is there new substantiation for this in a recent news report?
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