Egypt's New Kingdom: Empire, Religious Change, and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Tides of History
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Ahanatin's Athenism
By the end of his life, no more than ten years after his said festival, where he took the name ahanaten, he seems to have become a full blown monatheist. The big question is why? Why embrace the aten and abandon the traditional deities of egypt? And why do so not as the culmination of decades or century's long monatheistic movement, but over the course of one man's lifetime?
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