He shattered Egypt’s ancient religion and claimed the sun as the only god. After his death, they tried to wipe him from ...

Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) was a pharaoh of 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt. He is also known as 'Akhenaton' or 'Ikhnaton' and also 'Khuenaten'. Tags: Akhenaten Egyptian guard Egypt ...

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ascending the throne, he turned away from traditional Egyptian ...

Called the first monotheist and “the Heretic King” by many scholars, Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten was alive in the mid-14th century B.C.E. and he ordered his subjects to worship only one god: ...

Here, the upper part of the Egyptian carving, showing the hieroglyph of Amun (top left); the hieroglyph and the god's face were hacked out on orders of pharaoh Akhenaten (reign 1353-1336 B.C) and ...

The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The ...

So, Akhenaten married his eldest daughter, Meritaten. Then, he had the next eldest daughter, Ankhesenpaaten, marry Tut so that when Tut became king, she would be queen (it was common for Egyptian ...

Akhenaten, a pharaoh from Egypt?s 18th Dynasty, has breasts, hips and buttocks as large and round as a woman?s and a belly as prominent as that of a pregnant woman.

Egyptian antiquities authorities have recovered a statue of the renegade Pharaoh Akhenaten that was stolen along with eight other items during protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak.

She was married to Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, after all — his Great Royal Wife and chief consort. Moreover, Egyptologists know that the couple had children together (they parented six daughters).