simultaneous abandonment of the new capital city has resulted in a perfect time capsule just waiting for the modern archaeologist’s spade. While the sun-disk Aten shone over Amarna, Pharaoh’s subjects in Canaan bowed ‘seven times and seven times’ before their god, their sun, the king of Egypt. That courtly language was typical not only when the Aten was the god of Egypt, but before and after Akhenaten’s reign as well. Canaan was very much a part of the Egyptian domain, and Pharaoh was Palestine’s