Egyptian mythology · 5 chapters

Aten and the Amarna Revolution

One pharaoh. One god. Seventeen years that Egypt tried to forget.

Akhenaten dissolves Egypt's ancient priesthoods, builds a city in the desert dedicated to the solar disk Aten, and composes the Great Hymn to the Aten, only for his revolution to be dismantled and his name erased after his death.

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Aten and the Amarna Revolution

The Pharaoh Who Heard One God

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