Pharaoh Akhenaten ruled Egypt for 13 years, from 1355-1338 B.C.E. ... Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV; better known by his later name Akhenaten; ...

She and her husband, Amenhotep IV (AKA Akhenaten), tossed out the old gods and set up the sun as god in the form of Aten. This didn’t go over well with everyone, but it did give the couple ...

Crowned Amenhotep IV, ... Akhenaten's attempt to suppress one god and advance another in a culture that reveled in a complex pantheon of ever-changing deities did not endure.

FIRST the pharaoh changed his name, from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaten. Then he decreed that a new capital should be built far away from the old one. And in this city, one god should be worshipped ...

Scientists literally put a face to a name after reconstructing the countenance of Tutankhamun’s grandfather Amenhotep III, marking the first time the iconic figure’s true likeness had b… ...

Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten five years into his reign to reflect his rejection of the main gods of the established pantheon and his promotion in their place of Aten, the god of ...

On his death, Amenhotep III was succeeded by his son, Amenhotep IV. The new pharaoh would rebel against the powerful Amun priesthood, installing the sun god Aten as the top Egyptian deity.

She was the wife of Amenhotep IV (who later changed his name to Akhenaten), a pharaoh who unleashed a revolution that saw Egypt's religion become focused around the worship of the Aten, the sun disk.

Akhenaten was known as Amenhotep IV until the fifth year of his reign. At that point, he decided to abandon Egypt’s polytheism for a monotheistic embrace of the god Aten.

Facial muscles and ligaments were modeled digitally on KV 55's skull. (Image credit: FAPAB Research Center) A shadowy past. Akhenaten ascended to the throne as Amenhotep IV and took his new name ...