Egypt's New Kingdom: Empire, Religious Change, and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Tides of History
Ahenatin and the Sun
Solar religion goes back all the way to the old kingdom, if not further. The king and the sun were closely associated with one another. Ahenatin didn't invent a new belief system out of whole cloth. He took aspects of egyptian religion that had existed for centuries and built on them.
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