I stared at the sun. It really hurt. Yet, as I stumbled down Prez Lawn barefoot (#freethefoot) with holes burned into my ...

Their legacy would stay buried for millennia. Sun cityDedicated to the solar god Aten, the ruins of Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s capital city, known today as Amarna, sit on the eastern bank of the ...

She and her husband, Amenhotep IV (AKA Akhenaten), tossed out the old gods and set up the sun as god in the form of Aten. This didn’t go over well with everyone, but it did give the couple ...

Crowned Amenhotep IV, he changed his name to Akhenaten in his fifth year on the throne and focused his energies on promoting a single god, Aten, the sun disk. Together with his beautiful queen ...

in favor of worshipping just one of the many Egyptian Gods: Aten, the disk of the sun. Of course, Pharaoh Akhenaten did not encourage the Egyptian people to stop worshipping Pharaoh Akhenaten ...

During his reign, Akhenaten outlawed traditional Egyptian gods and centralized worship exclusively around Aten, the sun disk. He moved the capital city and enforced strict religious ordinances.

His father, Akhenaten, had died. While the murderous machinations of the years immediately following are unclear, we know the heretic pharaoh’s sun-god religion was overthrown by priests of the ...

Interestingly, the stronghold’s founder Akhenaten is often viewed as a disruptor, notably breaking from the civilization’s polytheistic tradition in favor of solely worshipping the sun god ...

Ancient relief: Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti worship the sun god Aten Image: Paul Schemm/AP Photo/picture alliance Around 1350 BC, the royal couple left the capital Thebes and within a ...