Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

Tucked away in vintage coin collections and now resurfacing online for up to USD 40 (EGP 1,990), Egypt’s five piastres coin ...

He also moved the Egyptian capital to a new city he built named Akhetaten, meaning “horizon of the god Aten.” Akhenaten’s revolution was short-lived: Egypt would return to its old faith ...

Heretic king ... The remains of a statue showing Pharaoh Akhenaten who disrupted Egypt by overthrowing the old religions and imposing the sun-god Aten as the sole deity. Source: Supplied 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 ...

Statue of Akhenaten in the collection of the Egyptian Museum ... the worship of a single deity—Aten, the sun god. “This is the pharaoh,” Egyptologist Zahi Hawass said in an interview with NBC News, ...

Others like Ikram, prefer to define him as a henotheist — someone who worships one particular god, while acknowledging the existence and potential worship of other deities. Akhenaten ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

During his reign, Akhenaten outlawed traditional Egyptian ... Though harsh, Yosef could have seen himself as God’s emissary, tasked with elevating Egyptian society. From the Torah’s ...

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 ...