Akhenaten

British

/ ˌækəˈnɑːtən /

noun

original name Amenhotep IV. died ?1358 _bc , king of Egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from Thebes to Tell El Amarna and introduced the cult of Aten

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Egypt accuses German archaeologists of smuggling the colourfully painted bust of Nefertiti, wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, out of the country more than a century ago.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Akhenaten later closed the temples of the other major Egyptian gods and ordered representations of them destroyed and their names chiseled off monuments.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

His father is thought to have been the pharaoh Akhenaten, while his mother was his father’s sister, according to DNA testing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

Akhenaten replaced him by elevating a sun god called Aten, who was previously only a minor religious figure.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022

MAAT, 60. ---- figure of, presented to the god, 71. ---- her worship retained by Akhenaten, 60.

From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir

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