The Boston Globe, November 11th, 1999
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 pharaoh who was probably history's first monotheist and who, some time around 1347 BC, ordered tens of thousands of his subjects to a crescent- shaped plain in Middle Egypt, bordered by protective hills on one side and the life-giving Nile on the other. There they were to create a new city for a newly promoted deity - the sun god, now the only god, Aten. Sevent...
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