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@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @paninid @Outmazi @Beachbum

#History #Egyptology #Echnaton
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"Akhenaten founded and moved his dynastic government to, #Akhetaten, referred to as either #Amarna, El-Amarna, or Tell el-Amarna by modern scholars." 2)

The new #religion and the new capital did not survive the #pharaoh's death.
His likely son, #Tutankhamun, born #Tutankhaten, moved the capital back to #Thebes and reinstated the #Amun 2) priesthood.3)

Both...

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten

en.m.wikipedia.orgAten - Wikipedia
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#History #Egyptology #Echnaton
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Sounds great.

It is the same person, though. #Echnaton 1) changed the name because #Amenophis is a tribute to the "household " god of the pharaohs, #Amun,* who reigned in #Thebes.

By one account, he broke the stranglehold of the priests of Amun, who had become too powerful, by making the sun god #Aton/ #Aten, the one and only god and him it's sole interlocutor.

Furthermore,...

1)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun

@paninid @Outmazi @Beachbum

en.m.wikipedia.orgAmun - Wikipedia
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As I can't decipher anything and as I am a fan of #Egyptology, is #Amenophis IV/ #Akhenaten/ #Akhenaton/ #Echnaton, the inventor of #monotheism in your table?
In particular, is there a connection to the #Abrahamic religions?
As the heretic pharaoh was later on expunged from history by his successors and the #Amun priests as much as possible, I have often wondered whether this radical concept survived this severe punishment..

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhena

@paninid @Outmazi @Beachbum

en.m.wikipedia.orgAkhenaten - Wikipedia