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King Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, known for radically transforming religious practices. Reigning from around 1353 to 1336 BCE, he introduced monotheism with the worship of the sun disk, Aten, and moved the capital to Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna). His reforms were largely reversed after his death, but his reign remains a significant and controversial chapter in Egyptian history.
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King Ekhnaton, who managed the king with his father, Amenhotab IV, for more than nine years, is said to have twelve years, and then his father was to pay a price for his health and his youth for his sanctuary and his whims. When Akhnatun took the throne of the country, he found things a bit ready to worship the Sun God alone, symbolizing him with her puck, which he called "Aton", and saying of his idol: "It is the power behind this disc, and it is one that has no partner," he initially built a temple for him in Taiba, the capital of the King.
That did not anger the priests of Amun Ra, because their idol Amun Ra also represents the God of the Sun, but which I keep them insisting on the worship of his God alone and the prohibition of the worship of Amun and other gods. He succeeded in spreading his doctrine throughout the country and in eliminating other doctrines without much trouble ", indicating that the minds were ready to accept it, and that the Pharaohs had holiness.
Akhnatun built his new capital, "Sisters", at speed, and the first houses of state greats and courtiers were in a luxurious healthy style, He has fulfilled the amenities and luxury, and each employee has inscribed his name and titles on the front of his house beside the prayer of the god "Aton", After settling down, the makers gradually flocked to the new capital, taking their homes in the backward space between the homes of the senior employees.
In this town, the Minors are inhabited by the Minister next to the vile cottage where the small maker shelters. They called the Minister's Street, the priest's street and so on. Akhnatun ruled for 17 years, worsening the country's conditions economically, politically and militarily, because he was interested only in spreading his new concept of divinity, bumping into the culture inherited from the decades of religious conflict, and in the plots of priests, causing the loss of many of Egypt's kingdoms, and allowing guardians in far distant encyclopedia.
Ekhenaton had only a little after reigning for eighteen quarters, and he did not know whether the nose had died on his bedding or that he had been assassinated by conspirators after being overlooked by the eye of care that had been guarded, and he had left after establishing a strong religious policy, and having made successful strides in the faith.
Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled the New Kingdom of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty, ruled from 1353 to 1336 BCE. His other names, which all translate to "successful for" or "of great use to" the god Aten, are "Akhnaton," "Akhenatenaton," "Ecnaton," or "Ijnaton."
The Akhenaten attempt ended early. After his death, he ascended to the throne as the young Tutankhamen, who reopened the temples of Amun for worship, brought the capital to Thebes, and changed his name to Tutankhamen instead of the name given by his father, Akhenaten, which was Tutankhaten.
Akhenaten, the first known monotheist, initiated a significant theological, political, and religious revolution lasting 17 years, impacting history throughout his reign.
Of all his reforms, perhaps the most marked was that of elevating Aten, the sun disk, into the place of chief deity. In the first years of his reign, he gradually brought about the transition away from traditional polytheism, which honored the gods Amun, Osiris, and Ra, toward the exclusive worship of Aten. In the fifth year of rule, he reconfirmed his name, adding to it a new one: Akhenaten, which means "Effective for Aten," in honor of his new deity.
Also, Akhenaten changed the capital city from Thebes to a new city he made called Akhetaten (the modern-day Amarna). This city was built with the intention that it would be the center of worship of Aten and the administrative point for the whole of Egypt. This act was the most audacious he did because it was a total cut-off from the very many centuries-old influence of the powerful priestly office of Amun over society in general.
Amenhotep IV (1372-1354 B.C.), son of Amenhotep III and husband of Nefertiti. Akhenaten is a unique figure in Egyptian history; he ended the millennial religious order by introducing monotheism. Sovereign of the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom, he assumed the name of the god Aton, that is, the Sun god, with whom he identified himself. After forcing the cult of this divinity, the pharaoh moved the capital from Thebes to Akhetaten, which is the current Tell El-Amarna city in El Menya, which became the center of the new cult and fought against the powerful priests who tried to keep alive the cult of the god Amun.
