: Later generations viewed his reign as a period of religious "heresy". 🏛️ Akhetaten: The New Capital
Akhenaten: The Revolutionary "Heretic King" Akhenaten (originally Amenhotep IV) was a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled Egypt for approximately 17 years (c. 1353–1336 BCE). He is most famous for upending centuries of Egyptian tradition by introducing one of the world's first recorded forms of monotheism. ☀️ The Religious Revolution akhenaton
: He ordered the name of the chief god, Amun, to be chiseled off monuments across Egypt. : Later generations viewed his reign as a
: He declared Aten the sole god and himself the only intermediary between the god and the people. akhenaton
: Later generations viewed his reign as a period of religious "heresy". 🏛️ Akhetaten: The New Capital
Akhenaten: The Revolutionary "Heretic King" Akhenaten (originally Amenhotep IV) was a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled Egypt for approximately 17 years (c. 1353–1336 BCE). He is most famous for upending centuries of Egyptian tradition by introducing one of the world's first recorded forms of monotheism. ☀️ The Religious Revolution
: He ordered the name of the chief god, Amun, to be chiseled off monuments across Egypt.
: He declared Aten the sole god and himself the only intermediary between the god and the people.