Akhenaten came to power as the pharaoh of Egypt in either the year 1353 or 1351 BCE and reigned for roughly 17 years during the 18th dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom. Akhenaten became best known to modern scholars for the new religion he created that centered on the Aten. | Odyssey - Ancient History

📸 Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh Who Worshipped One God Over 3,000 years ago, Pharaoh Akhenaten changed everything. He abandoned Egypt’s traditional gods and introduced the worship of a single deity — the Aten, the sun disk. This radical shift shook the foundations of Egyptian religion and politics. Temples were closed, old traditions were banned, and a new capital city, Amarna, was built for his revolutionary faith. Historians still debate: was Akhenaten a visionary ahead of his time, or a her

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