After Akhenaten’s death, his subjects tried to erase every possible ... Ra-Horakhty is one of the many forms of the sun god ...

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 ...

Under Akhenaten, the solar deity Aten was elevated above all others, including the principal state god Amun. This resulted in the king being the sole high priest and beneficiary (along with his ...

Under Akhenaten, the solar deity Aten was elevated above all others, including the principal state god Amun. This resulted in the king being the sole high priest and beneficiary (along with his family ...

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the ... he turned away from traditional Egyptian polytheism to the worship of a single god: The Aten. Was this an early form of monotheism?

Archaeologists have unearthed a 'major' Egyptian town that was likely constructed by Akhenaten ... his father’s worship of Aten the sun god and brought Egypt back to its polytheistic roots.

Declaring Aten as the supreme and only god, Akhenaten closed the temples of rival gods and had his soldiers deface images of Amun and other deities, tossing out, to widespread consternation ...

Experts have long believed that King Tut was the son of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who is best known for replacing Egypt's polytheistic religion with a monotheistic faith that worshipped the sun god ...

Akhenaten (c. 1353–1336 BCE) Renowned for introducing monotheism, he worshipped the sun god Aten and founded the city of Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna). Tutankhamun (c. 1332–1323 BCE ...