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

“For the first time, we can confirm that the idea of Aten was not from Akhenaten as everyone believes,” he says.

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 Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

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