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Egypt's
Amarna Period |
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Virtually no phase in the history of our
planet's civilisations has so many unanswered questions, and
attracts so many theories, as the Egyptian 'Amarna Period' when
the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten turned away from the traditional
gods and embraced his one god, the Aten sun disk.
Why did he turn his back on the existing
Gods and close their temples, what was the relationship between
Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, and what was the real reason for the
apparent massive anti-Atenist backlash that followed his death
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Amenhotep
III
Akhenaten's father, his reign
saw the rise of the Aten |
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Tiye
Akhenaten's mother, and a regular
visitor to Akhetaten. |
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Akhenaten
The 'Heretic Pharaoh' who turned
his back on 3,000 years of state religion. |
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Tutankhamun
An insignificant Child King,
his almost intact tomb assured him of the immortality he sought. |
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Smenkhkare
Akhenaten's successor, one of
the Amarna Period's biggest mysteries. |
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Horemheb
Akhenaten's General, as Pharaoh
he was credited with restoring the temples. |
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Ay
A high official throughout the
Amarna Period, and Tutankhamun's successor as Pharaoh. |
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Nefertiti
Akhenaten's Sun Queen, one of
history's most famous faces. |
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Kiya
Another enigma, did she succeed
Nefertiti as Queen, and was she Tutankhamun's mother. |
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Of course there is much more
to Ancient Egyptian history then the mysteries of the Amarna Period. To
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