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Name: Ikhnaton
Nationality: Egyptian
Gender: Male
Occupations: pharaoh

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Biography of Ikhnaton
434 words, approx. 1 pages
Ikhnaton (reigned 1379-1362 B.C.) was the tenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. His reign was marked by the flourishing of the worship of Aten and by numerous uprisings. Ikhnaton, son of Amenhotep III (Amenophis III), ascended the throne of...


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Akhenaton (Amenophis Iv or Neferkheprure' Wa'enre') Summary
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r. c. 1356-1335 B.C. Egyptian pharaoh and religious reformer who devoted himself to a single god, re-Herakhty. Akhenaton conceived of re-Herakhty as immanent in the sunlight streaming from the Aten or solar disk. He built the great city of...
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Akhenaton Summary
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AKHENATON (or Akhenaten) was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's eighteenth dynasty (c. 1352–1336 BCE) and the founder of the earliest historically documented monotheistic religion. Son of Amenhotep III and the chief queen, Tiya, Akhenaton...
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Akhenaten Information
6,986 words, approx. 23 pages
Akhenaten(or rarely alt: Ikhnaton)[1] meaning Effective spirit of Aten, first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning Amun is Satisfied) before his first year, was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is especially...


News and Journals
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Akhenaten and the Religion of Light.(Review)
07/01/2001: 904 words, approx. 3 pages
Akhenaten and the Religion of Light. By ERIK HORNUNG. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xii + 146. $29.95. This short and eminently readable translation of Erik Hornung's 1995 volume, Echnaton: Die Religion des Lichtes, focuses on the nature...
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The Boston Globe
Egypt's City Of Light An Innovative Mfa Exhibit Illuminates The Religion And Art Of The Great Pharaoh Akhenaten
11/11/1999: 1,841 words, approx. 6 pages
In the Egyptian city of Amarna, the sun rises each morning in a natural dip in the cliffs, momentarily cradled by rocks. With each dawn, the sun appears to create the world anew. That's how it seemed, at least, to Akhenaten, the radical...
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AP-Travel Online
Penn Exhibit Explores Tut's Birthplace
11/16/2006: 907 words, approx. 3 pages
One king's reign heralded revolution. The other's brought restoration. And after a later ruler set out to erase the pair from history, both were forgotten for more than 3,000 years. The beginning of the now-famous story of King...
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Reuters North American News Service
Tutankhamun's face goes on public display in tomb
11/4/2007: 622 words, approx. 2 pages
LUXOR, Egypt, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Egypt put the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see the face of a ruler who died more than...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pharaoh Akhenaten's New Religion
1,302 words, approx. 4 pages
The Pharaoh Akhenaten used a new style of Egyptian art to promote his new religion of the Aten. It replaced polytheism with a sole god who was omnipotent and mysterious.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Akhenaten
486 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay describes the life of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. It mentions how he changed Egypt and was the only Pharaoh who was different by proclaiming that all of the gods and goddesses worshiped by the Egyptian people, were not real and there was only one God.


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