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If Smenkhkare outlived Akhenaten, and became sole pharaoh, he likely ruled Egypt for less than a year. The next successor was Nefertiti [145] or Meritaten [146] ruling as Neferneferuaten, reigning in Egypt for about two years. [147] She was, in turn, probably succeeded by Tutankhaten, with the country being administered by the vizier and future ...
Previously the pharaoh was considered to become divine only at death. The first royal wife to hold this new title (not to be mistaken with the title of God's Wife ) was Queen Ahmose-Nefertari , the wife of Ahmose I , and this event is recorded in a stele in the temple of Amun at Karnak , and the role was a priestly post of importance in the ...
Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, [1] the Amarna religion, [2] the Amarna revolution, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty. [3]
The worship of Aten and the coinciding rule of Akhenaten are major identifying characteristics of a period within the Eighteenth Dynasty referred to as the Amarna Period (c. 1353 – 1336 BCE). [1] Atenism and the worship of the Aten as the sole god of ancient Egypt state worship did not persist beyond Akhenaten's death.
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This means that Nefertiti was still Akhenaten's living wife late in this pharaoh's 16th year (and second last year); [4] thus, the Amarna pharaohs Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten could only have succeeded to the throne in Akhenaten's 16th year in a brief 9 month coregency or have had an independent reign of their own over Egypt which lasted for ...
Relief depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters under the rays of Aten. During the New Kingdom the pharaoh Akhenaten abolished the official worship of other gods in favor of the sun-disk Aten. This is often seen as the first instance of true monotheism in history, although the details of Atenist theology are still unclear ...
Akhenaten was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruled for 17 years and died in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten , which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic .