A detailed history of Nefertiti’s life and times is given in Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen (1998). C. Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973), is an account of Akhenaton’s reign with detailed discussion of Nefertiti. An illustrated exploration of the lives of the Amarna queens is available in Dorothea Arnold, The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (1996). Rita E. Freed, Sue D’Auria, and Yvonne J. Markowitz (eds.), Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen (1999), offers a consideration of the art and material culture of the Amarna period. Nefertiti and her daughters are examined in historical context in Joyce Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt (2006).