Akhenaten
Egyptian pharaoh in 18th Dynasty · Egypt · Lived 1400 BC to 1336 BC · aged 64
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Something wrong?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.
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(.) Karnak, Amenophis IV 1900 (cropped)_Karnak%2C_Amenophis_IV_1900.jpg?width=1200)
(.) Karnak, Amenophis IV 1900
Akhenaten names&goddess Amarna tomb I
Akhenaten Throwing Stick EA34213
Akhenaten with one of his girls, detail of an altarpiece of a shrine. God Aten and his cartouches appear. C. 1345 BCE. From Amarna, Egypt. Neues Museum_LOC_matpc.07418.jpg?width=1200)
Akhenaten's beneficient solar divinity (...) LOC matpc.07418
Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughtersIn their own words 2
, How manifold it is, what thou hast made! They are hidden from the face. O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.
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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.
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