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; ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

EGYPTIAN Queen Nefertiti’s life still remains filled with many questions and theories. The wife of pharaoh Amenhotep IV was notable for her sublime beauty. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Queen Nefe… ...

“We already have DNA from the 18th dynasty mummies, from Akhenaten to Amenhotep II or III, ... Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, some 3,300 years ago during a period of affluence and immense social turmoil.