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Akhenaten

c. 1353–1336 BCE · 14th century BCE

Akhenaten was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned c. 1353–1336 BCE. He promoted the exclusive worship of the sun disc, the Aten, and moved the capital to a new city, Akhetaten (Amarna). His religious revolution disrupted Egyptian tradition and was reversed after his death.

Akhenaten
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