# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akhenaten
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:38.542Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/akhenaten"
name: "Akhenaten"
slug: "akhenaten"
description: "A pharaoh who tried to erase Egypt's gods and replace them with one — his own solar deity, Aten. The experiment died with him, his name was chiseled from monuments, and his successors called him \"the enemy.\" Three thousand years of obscurity until his lost capital turned up in the sand."
tagline: "Egyptian pharaoh in 18th Dynasty"
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country:
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birthDate: "-1400"
deathDate: "-1336"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  77
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Amenhotep IV around 1353 BC, he ruled as the tenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Five years in, he changed his name to Akhenaten and abandoned Egypt's traditional polytheism for Atenism, a religious overhaul centered on the sun disk. He built a new capital, Akhetaten, for the worship of Aten. After his death around 1336 BC, the shift was reversed: his monuments were dismantled, his statues smashed, his name struck from king lists. Tutankhamun, his close successor and likely son, restored the old gods and changed his own name from Tutankhaten. Later dynasties branded Akhenaten "that criminal." He stayed buried in the historical record until Amarna was discovered in the late 19th century, and a mummy possibly his was found in tomb KV55 in 1907. The fascination since has hinged on the art he commissioned, the religion he tried to force, and his tie to Tutankhamun.