Pharaoh Amenhotep III switched attention to the minor sun god, Aten. After his death, his son, Akenhaten, went much further and decreed that Aten was the only god, and later campaigned against all ...

Aten, a manifestation of the sun, was represented as a single disk releasing rays of light that produce the entirety of the universe and god itself. Adherents believed that Aten remade the world every ...

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 ...

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 ...

During his 17-year reign, he upended Egyptian culture, abandoning all of the traditional Egyptian pantheon but one, the sun god Aten. He even changed his name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaten, ...

Tut, the son of pharaoh Akhenaten, was not unpopular. Though his father had angered devout subjects by declaring fidelity to the sun god Aten and relocating the center of worship from Thebes to ...