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    Akhenaten was the 10th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt. He ruled from approximately 1372 to 1355 BCE. Some key aspects of his rule included promoting the worship of the sun god Aten above all other gods, establishing a new capital city called Akhetaten dedicated to Aten, and implementing radical religious and artistic reforms across Egypt. However, after his death there was a backlash against his reforms and his name was erased from public records.

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    Akhenaten was the 10th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt. He ruled from approximately 1372 to 1355 BCE. Some key aspects of his rule included promoting the worship of the sun god Aten above all other gods, establishing a new capital city called Akhetaten dedicated to Aten, and implementing radical religious and artistic reforms across Egypt. However, after his death there was a backlash against his reforms and his name was erased from public records.

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    Akhenaten was the 10th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt. He ruled from approximately 1372 to 1355 BCE. Some key aspects of his rule included promoting the worship of the sun god Aten above all other gods, establishing a new capital city called Akhetaten dedicated to Aten, and implementing radical religious and artistic reforms across Egypt. However, after his death there was a backlash against his reforms and his name was erased from public records.

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    Physiognomy:

    Effeminate body
    Narrow shoulders Fleshy chest Swelling thighs Pendulous abdomen Full buttocks Spindly limbs Scrawny neck

    Hanging chin Thick lips Sunken cheeks Slanty eyes

    ?Succeeded?

    Father Amenhotep III Mother Queen Tiye (The Great Royal Wife) Principal wife Nefertiti
    6 Daughters
    Union

    with Kiya Women

    1 Daughter
    Mystery

    ?Son? Tutankamen

    (r.1372-1355 BCE) 18 years 10th king of the 18th dynasty, New

    Kingdom Art (Amarna style), Architecture, and Religion of Egypt were marked by rapid change Amarna Letters
    Neglected foreign policy and allowed the Egyptian

    empire in the western Asia erode away

    1st

    year: Ambitious building project at Karnak temple


    Cult center for Aten (solar deity) He had a penchant for novelty and display

    2 crucial and iconoclastic decisions Led to name change from Amenhotep Amun is

    satisfied to Akhenaten Beneficial for Aten New capital city called Akhetaten Horizon of the Aten (site known as Al-Amarna in Middle Egypt)

    Solar

    religion not new to Egypt


    Fathers reign: Aten

    was significant
    Spirited

    promotion of the worship of Aten


    Reliefs and Steles

    showing the family worshipping and making offerings

    New Capital revolution from

    above aimed at reasserting the pharaohs absolute authority over the elite Swept away old cults eliminating their priests and with this established families who supplied the officials of the bureaucracy Supposed to be the resting place of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their eldest daughter

    Year

    12: major international festival Soon after family deaths: mother and up to 3 of my daughters (?plague?) Foreign Relations:
    Amarna Letters
    Also in Year 12 coregency with Ankhkheperure

    Smenkhkare (married daughter Meryetaten)


    Year

    17 dies

    Disappearance

    of the familys bodies During King Tutankhamen's reign:


    Went back to Memphis Officially sanctioned of uprooting everything of

    Akhenaten Works at Karnak Official buildings and Akhetaten Names hacked off reliefs His reign excised from public record/Kings Lists

    Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten: King of Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1988. Dodson, Aidan. Akhenaten Pages 260-261 in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Malden, MA: WileyBlackwell, 2013. Eaton-Krauss, Marianne, ed. Pages 48-51 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Kuhrt, Amelie. The Ancient Near East, 3000-330 BC. Vol. 1. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Martin, G.T, et.al. The Princeton Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Print. Rice, Michael. Akhenaten Pages 5-6 in Whos Who in Ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge, 1999.

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