All of the information that Nick gives in this chapter (except about what the Goa'uld would have done, of course) is accurate to the best of my knowledge and any mistakes therein are solely my own. For those who want to know how I know of this stuff, see Nick's little speech at the end of the chapter. As always, please read and review!

The next day, Jack had SG teams 8 and 9 go to Kinsah's world to do some more recon work and see if there were any clues as to who this Goa'uld could possibly be while Nick was able to talk with Rihana and Kinsah both to gain a more complete picture of how this "god" had come to power.

While they were describing the headdress the god wore, something nagged at Nick's mind and he excused himself to go find Daniel.

"Dan?" he asked distractedly as he entered the archaeologist's office, "can I use your laptop for something?"

"Sure Nick." Daniel replied, seeing the faraway look in his friend's eye. "Are you getting close to something?"

"I might be." Nick replied as he sat down on the chair and pulled Daniel's laptop toward him. Opening Internet Explorer, Nick quickly went to a website about Egypt's 18th Dynasty.

"You're thinking Egyptian?" Daniel asked skeptically.

"I am, and here's why." Nick answered, his eyes scanning the information in front of him.

"While Kinsah and Rihana were telling me about the clothes and the headdress this "god" was wearing, something about the description stuck out to me…I know I've either seen something similar or know something, but it's just out of my reach so hopefully, I can jog my memory."

"Hmmm…" Daniel murmured, his mind busily working as well. He had only sat there in contemplation before Nick leapt out of the chair and yelled, "I've got it! I know who it is!"

"What? Who?" Daniel demanded.

Nick turned the laptop toward him and pointed at the top of the screen. There was a picture of a relief wall from a tomb and Daniel leaned in to get a better look.

"They said there was a large, flat circle on his crown, and the circle had small hands reaching down from it." Nick told him breathlessly. "I knew I'd seen something like it before, and now I remember what it is…you know the story of Akhenaten, right?"

"I know the general jist of it, but you seem more up to date on it than I am." Daniel admitted, looking slightly ashamed. "With all of my work here, I don't have much time to catch up on everything that's going on back here on earth."

Nick chuckled before saying, "They actually found the city where Akhenaten moved after he left Thebes and the Aten is portrayed as a sun. disc…with hands reaching down from it."

Daniel froze. "So you think we're dealing with Aten?"

"It almost makes a weird sense…" Nick mused.

"How so?"

The Australian paced the small room. "All of the other Goa'uld, from what you've told me, basically had their planet that they held and apart from some squabbles, left each other alone. However, when Akhenaten proclaimed that there was only one true god, he would have been stepping on Ra's toes…"

"…so once Aten had gotten Egypt for a while and his first host died, he knew he would have to get out of there quickly." Daniel finished.

"Now, with most of his old opponents out of the way, Aten might have figured that this was his chance to be head honcho and decided to start with a small planet before moving on to bigger and better things, so to speak." Nick added.

"We need to brief Jack and the others." Daniel said, standing up and book marking the website on his laptop.

"Good luck!" Nick said cheerfully.

There was a small smile on Daniel's face. "Oh no Nick, I'm not giving the briefing…you are.

Jack, Sam, Janet, and the various heads of the SG teams still on base were waiting patiently in the briefing room when Nick and Daniel came in.

"Any time you're ready Danny Boy." Jack said, getting a pen out and preparing to doodle.

"Actually, since Dr. Kosovich is more up to date on this particular dynasty than I am, he will be conducting the briefing today instead of me." Daniel replied, sounding somewhat smug.

Several pairs of shocked eyes turned to Nick, who was making sure his small slide show was ready. Once everything was prepared to his satisfaction, he turned his attention to the small audience in front of him.

"While Kinsah and Rihana told me about the headdress that the Goa'uld wore, something nagged me at the back of my mind and upon further investigation I believe that I have discovered the identity of the Goa'uld we are dealing with."

"Do tell." Jack replied dryly.

Nick pegged him with a withering glare before going on. "In Egypt's 18th Dynasty, a king named Amenhotep IV came to power. However, he had a very radical idea for the time; he believed that there was only one supreme god, as opposed to the myriads of deities that his people had worshipped for centuries before him. He even changed his name to Akhenaten."

Hitting the clicker Daniel had given him, Nick showed them the relief from the tomb of Amenhotep with the sun disc and the hands reaching down from the heavens.

"This shows what they believed Aten was; a sun god almost like Ra but Aten was shown as a disc with hands of light reaching down to illuminate the land."

Taking a laser pen out of his pocket, Nick highlighted the disc and said, "Kinsah described the headdress as having a "circle with many hands reaching down". In my humble opinion, that sounds very much like a description of Aten."

Shutting off the laser pen and the picture, he took a seat and looked at all of them seriously. "Dr. Jackson and myself have theorized that once Aten's host died, Ra and the other gods whose territory he had encroached upon were going to come after him so he left immediately after Akhenaten's death, for without his greatest supporter still alive to command his people to obey, the Egyptian people headed straight back to the old ways and almost all trace of Akhenaten and his god were obliterated."

Jack looked up at Nick. "Why is this…Akhen-whatever his name is so important?"

"Ever hear of King Tut?" Nick shot back.

"Yeah…who hasn't?"

"Akhenaten is King Tut's dad."

"Ah…I see." Jack replied, sounding somewhat chastised. Sam hid a smile and asked, "No offense Nick, but how do you know all this stuff?"

He smiled somewhat sheepishly. "I watch a lot of things about Egypt on the Discovery Channel and I've been to about 6 different Egypt exhibits in museums, not to mention all the books I've read…"

"Well Daniel, you might lose you job!" Janet joked.

He made a face at her and Nick chuckled.

"No fear of that happening…I may have this dynasty over him, but he's got everything else!"

The briefing was closed and Nick gathered up his things before heading out. As he did so, he horked the pen that Jack had left lying on the table. No sense to leave a good pen out in plain sight!