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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.Zahi Hawass rattled world museums last week with requests to hand over ancient Egyptian masterpieces, including the Rosetta...

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.

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.