Akhenaten
Britishnoun
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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
Tutankhamun was the son of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who renounced the sun god Amun, the deity with the most economically and politically powerful religious cult.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022
His appreciation of the character of Akhenaten differs considerably from that formed by the author of the present pamphlet, and should be compared with it.
From The Tell El Amarna Period by Hutchison, J. (Jane)
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