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Akhenaten; The First Monotheist? ¦ Atenism
Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ...
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Meet King Tut’s Father, Egypt’s First Revolutionary
because it was uncontaminated by the worship of any god. A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna ...
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Tomb of Ramose: Main Hall
(Akhenaten was the "rebel" pharaoh who established the world's first monotheistic religion, based on a belief in the Aten, or sun disk.) Notice the meticulous carving of hair in this detail from ...
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Who was Tutankhamun?
Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't ... You see, he forced everyone to worship a god called Aten which was pretty unpopular… So I’ve let people worship their old gods ...