Nefertiti Part V: The Curse of the Scarab

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Nefertiti Part V: The Curse of the Scarab" is a Mystery from Friday, January 12, 1979.

Akhenaton, with his obstinate belief in one god, has become a religious fanatic. Because he has denied their daughter, Mekataton, a proper Egyptian funeral, Nefertiti stows away on a Nile River barge headed for Thebes, carrying with her Mekataton’s embalmed body. But, just as the funeral ceremony is about to begin, Akhenaton appears. He stops the proceedings, takes away his daughter’s coffin and decrees that Nefertiti will from now on be treated as a common slave. Later, when he proclaims he has become Aton, his one god, and Nefertiti calls him a fool, he attacks her with a palette knife. But he accidentally falls on it and kills himself, leaving Nefertiti and the young Tutankhamen to rule Egypt.