He renounced Egypt's polytheistic religion and reformed the Egyptian religion to focus on a single god from their pantheon, the sun god Aten, a decision that is believed to have been unpopular ...

In Luxor, Egypt, a ‘lost city of gold’ is gradually revealing the story of its construction and sudden abandonment more than 3,000 years ago. Its remains could reveal more about the troubled years of ...

Amarna is perhaps most famously known as the capital of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun’s father, who broke with tradition by forsaking the old gods for one deity, the sun god Aten.

The pharaoh Akhenaten relocated his capital city to Amarna to build a pure, uncontaminated cult of worship dedicated to the sun god Aten. [Gallery: Sun Gods and Goddesses] ...

The players must step through Amarna's dark mirror, a twisted temple city dedicated to the true face of the Black Pharaoh's god, the Aten. Over thirty-three-hundred years ago, when the call was ...

Egyptian archaeologists have found a lost city in Egypt near the Valley of the Kings. The Rise of Aten is said to rival Pompeii in terms of completeness and preservation and could tell us far more ...

Aten Aten was the sun-disk, the body in which the essence of the divine being was made visible. He rose to prominence in the reign of Amenhotep IV, who thought of himself as the embodiment of Aten ...

Fed up with the power of the priests honoring Amen-Re, Pharaoh Amenhotep III switched attention to the minor sun god, Aten. After his death, his son, Akenhaten, went much further and decreed that Aten ...

Aten was an ancient city named after the god of the sun. (Image: Getty) Egypt is a country famed for its ancient history and archaeological discoveries dating back thousands of years.

A mannequin of the boy king His father was notable for having made some changes to the deities the Egyptians worshipped, promoting his new sun god Aten over the traditional Amun.