Akhenaten
c. 1353–1336 BCE — Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten and promotes extraordinary devotion to the solar deity Aten. He establishes a new royal capital at Akhetaten, modern Amarna, ...
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c. 1353–1336 BCE — Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten and promotes extraordinary devotion to the solar deity Aten. He establishes a new royal capital at Akhetaten, modern Amarna, ...
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c. 1353–1336 BCE — Akhenaten's religious revolution gives the Aten unprecedented royal prominence and suppresses major traditional cults. Some scholars have described this as monotheism, ...
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