Nefertiti, Kiya, Meritaten, Ankhesenamun, and a unidentified sister were all wives/consorts to Akhenaten.
Devoted to Aten in Egypt
Queen Ankhesenamun was the wife of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun overturned the monotheist heresy of his father, Amenhotep IV (aka Akhenaten), by changing the last syllable of he and his wifes names from "aten" to "amun" (Tutankh-aten and Ankhesenpa-aten). Ap…
King Tutankhamun, a pharaoh in the Eighteenth Dynasty in ancient Egypt, lived from 1341 BCE to 1323 BCE. Tutankhamun became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father Akhenaten. Akhenaten's abolition of Egypt's polytheistic religion and his focus upon one god, the sun god Aten, drastically changed Egypt's religious traditions. During his reign, Tutankhamun and his regents began to return ancient Egyptian religious traditions back to their pre-Akhenaten norms.
Yes, that Akhenaten did. He changed Egypt's Polytheistic society into one that was of Monothesiam. He took thougt that only one god needed to be worshiped and that all the others no longer mattered. He was hateed and despised by many. He was the father of king tut and was infamous for going to monotheisum (worship of one god). To the society of Egypt's relief Tut took the throne at the age of twelve and he let the people worship several gods agian. He also made everyone kill themselves if they didn't worship him. The god was Aten. King tut and his sucessors helped bring the kingdom back to polytheism over time.
King Akhenaton and his queen Nefertiti were worshipers of the God of the Sun, Aten. Opposition arose when Akhenaton destroyed statues of Amun, many peoples prefered God, many temples reverted to the throne. Corruption grew and Akhenenaton left Thebes and moved to a new capital in Middle Egypt, half way between Memphis and Thebes. The sight was not previosly dedicated to any Gods or Godesses so he named it Akhenaten-The Horizon of the Aten. Today the site is known as el-Amarna.
Nefertiti, Kiya, Meritaten, Ankhesenamun, and a unidentified sister were all wives/consorts to Akhenaten.
The city Queen Nefertit and Pharoah Akhenaten built was called Akhenaten in honor of the Pharoah. They built it as a new capital, and as a place to worship their sun god, Aten. When their son, King Tutakhamen came into rule he destroyed the religion they created and relocated the capital. The modern day city of Aten is called Amarna.
Nefertiti wife of Amenhotep IV, who officially changed his name to Akhenaten, and Nefertiti was henceforth known as Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti. The name change was a sign of the ever-increasing importance of the cult of the Aten.
The pharaoh AkhenAten - the Aten was the Sun God.
Amenhotep IV, a pharaoh who later took the name Akhenaten "living spirit of Aten" in worship and recognition of Aten; had several wives as was the custom of the Egyptian royal family. They might have included: Nefertiti* (often portrayed to be his only/chief/main wife in western civilization) Kiya Meritaten? Ankhesenamun? An unidentified sister The names of his possible children: Smenkhkare? Meritaten Meketaten Ankhesenamun Neferneferuaten Tasherit Neferneferure Setepenre Tutankhamun* (often called King Tut) Ankhesenpaaten-ta-sherit?
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Devoted to Aten in Egypt
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His original name was Amenhotep IV. He then changed his name to Akhenaten. This was because he wanted to name himself after Aten the sun god.
Nefertiti, Kiya, Meritaten, Ankhesenamun, and a unidentified sister were all wives/consorts to Akhenaten.
The pharaoh Akhenaten made everyone in Egypt worship Aten.