Akhenaten

British  

/ ˌækəˈnɑːtən /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

Egypt accuses German archaeologists of smuggling the colourfully painted bust of Nefertiti, wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, out of the country more than a century ago.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

A century ago, archaeologists excavated a 3,300-year-old Egyptian palace in Amarna, which was fleetingly the capital of Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Whom did Akhenaten want the people of Egypt to worship exclusively?

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

His father is thought to have been the pharaoh Akhenaten, while his mother was his father’s sister, according to DNA testing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

But before Akhenaten came to the throne, about 1380 B.C.—possibly twenty years before that event—the great catastrophe which brought the Minoan Empire of Knossos to a close had already happened.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James