Akhenaton (QUICK – 2025)

Akhenaten: The Revolutionary "Heretic King" Akhenaten (originally Amenhotep IV) was a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled Egypt for approximately 17 years (c. 1353–1336 BCE). He is most famous for upending centuries of Egyptian tradition by introducing one of the world's first recorded forms of monotheism. ☀️ The Religious Revolution

Akhenaten replaced Egypt's traditional polytheism—the worship of many gods—with the exclusive worship of , the sun disk. akhenaton

: Later generations viewed his reign as a period of religious "heresy". 🏛️ Akhetaten: The New Capital akhenaton

: He ordered the name of the chief god, Amun, to be chiseled off monuments across Egypt. akhenaton