Egyptian pharaoh in 18th Dynasty
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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.
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 c…
Sourced, dated quotes from Akhenaten
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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