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Akhenaten
/ ˌækəˈnɑːtən /
noun
- Akhenaten?1358 bcMEgyptianPOLITICS: hereditary ruler original name Amenhotep IV. died ?1358 bc , king of Egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from Thebes to Tell El Amarna and introduced the cult of Aten
Example Sentences
In “Advice From the Sun,” an enormous disc hangs like Pharaoh Akhenaten’s abstracted sun god between two gently rolling spheres.
His father is thought to have been the pharaoh Akhenaten, while his mother was his father’s sister, according to DNA testing.
Akhenaten replaced him by elevating a sun god called Aten, who was previously only a minor religious figure.
In the space of a generation, Akhenaten had created a city from scratch at el-Amarna for his new god, and prepared royal tombs for himself, his children along and his wives, including Nefertiti.
By the time Akhenaten died and Tutankhamun took the throne at 9, the family had become so unpopular that the boy feared their tombs would be defaced.
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