A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna stelae like this were erected as shrines in elite residences.

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the ... traditional Egyptian polytheism to the worship of a single god: The Aten. Was this an early form of monotheism? Trump Names Karoline Leavitt ...

And she played a central role in promoting the worship of the Aten. Some suggest she attempted to rule under a new name after Akhenaten’s death. But this hypothesis remains controversial.

Akhenaten was a radical religious zealot who revolted against the Egyptian orthodoxy. He rejected the canonical Egyptian pantheon, led by Amun, the king of the gods, in favor of a kind of monotheism ...

With the revolutionary zeal of a Lenin or Mao, Akhenaten swept away the old religion, replacing it with a monotheistic cult worship of the sun-disc Aten. He built a new capital city, Akhetaten ...

(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 ...

Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten five years into his reign to reflect his rejection of the main gods of the established pantheon and his promotion in their place of Aten, the god of ...

Egyptologist Jean Revez will tell us the story of Akhenaten’s reign, a one of a kind Pharaoh who revolutionized religious beliefs and art during his time. Under Akhenaton Egypt will experience a ...

Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't. He outlawed all of the gods except for one called Aten. The people were very unhappy with this change and, after Akhenaten's death ...