"Ikhnaton: Legend and History", Frederick J. Giles, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, (1972).

Another book about the "great heretic" Akhenaten (here spelled with an earlier transliteration). Dr. Giles has a quite impressive academic pedigree - University of Toronto, Oriental Institute of Chicago, and a doctorate from the University of London - but evidently said to heck with the battles and hassles of academia and became a successful businessman. Still he kept on doing research in his field of expertise.

Clearly the Charles Ives of Egyptology, Dr. Giles' writes an excellent account - not the least because of his honesty in showing how tenuous are some of the well-known "facts" are in Egyptology. He mentions how Amenhotep III was reported mummified with a technique that was new at the time, abandoned before Tut was mummified, and then reinstated a couple of hundred years later. He then points out that this almost certainly means the mummy is not Amenhotep, but a later one that got mixed up when the priests were reburying the mummies found in the tomb of Amenhotep II. The arguments seem clear and convincing but even in recent books you'll still read the mummy was Amenhotep's.

He also translates an inscription about Akhenaten possibly marrying his own daughter (see below) exactly as it appears - with all the unclear symbols and massive gaps and arbitrary restoration of absent hieroglyphics - showing you should take translations in books with proper reservations.