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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

And in this city, one god should be worshipped, forsaking all others: the sun god Aten. Akhenaten’s heresy didn’t last long, ending with his death less than 20 years later. It was a blip in ...