ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in preceding chapters of this book. The book describes that sexualised Akhenaten is a suitable image of Baudrillard. It encapsulates so many of the ways that ancient Egypt has been used over the past 150 years. The book describes how Akhenaten had been discovered for the first time at the end of the twentieth century instead of at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Akhenaten lifetime shows in many different guises, playing around with his own images and identities: dutiful son, all-encompassing ruler, warrior-king, parent, husband and various gods. The diversity of the book represents something of the true nature of Akhenaten. The diversity ensures that Akhenatens presence as a cultural hallucination. Akhenaten has become a simulacrum, an endlessly repeated copy with no original. Akhenaten's immortality lies precisely.
