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The Eyptian people didn't accept Akhenaten because he was actually created by a pharaoh who wanted the Eyptian people to become monotheistic, or to have one god. And by the way, Akhenaten wasn't the sun god. His symbol looks like a sun though. I think Ra was the sun god.

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Was akhenaten's mummy ever found?

Yes, Akhenaten's mummy was found, but its identification is debated among scholars. The most widely accepted theory is that the mummy discovered in the tomb of Amenhotep II at the Valley of the Kings is indeed that of Akhenaten, although it was originally unrecognized. Other candidates have been proposed, and some believe his body may have been lost or destroyed during ancient times. The uncertainty surrounding Akhenaten's burial and the fate of his remains continues to intrigue Egyptologists.


How did akhenaten treat his people?

Akhenaten, the Pharaoh of Egypt, is known for his radical shift towards monotheism, worshiping the sun disk Aten, which led to significant changes in religious practices. His reign saw the establishment of a new capital, Akhetaten, and the suppression of the traditional polytheistic worship, which alienated many priests and citizens. While he promoted art and culture, his focus on Aten worship and the upheaval in religious practices created social and economic unrest, leading to dissatisfaction among his people. Overall, his treatment of his subjects was marked by both innovation and discord.


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Who was the heretic pharaoh?

The name if the Heretic Pharaoh was Pharaoh Amenhotep IV more commonly known as Akhenaten when he changed his name. Akhenaten means “beloved of Aten”. The Amenhotep Dynasty had long since worshiped the sun Gods as the chief and supreme of the Gods from whom the Pharaohs were believed to be descendent form and that they themselves acted as the sun God in human form as a matter of divine right. Amenhotep the IV took this a step further and decided to make the literally sun disk the ONLY God the people could worship. He called this Sun disk Aten, he rejected the previous sun god of Atum, Ra and Among Ra and had their temples and Priesthoods shut down and confiscated, and then abandoned Thebes, the previous Capital and built a new one he called Tell el-Amara meaning “Horizon of the sun disk.However, contradictory to popular belief his religion was NOT a monotheist religion it was an Atheist one. According to Atenism, only the Royal family was allowed to worship Aten, because they were his descendants and thus only ones who could speak to him. As such he closed down all the temples of the previous Gods and dissolved their priesthoods: Priests were no longer seen as speakers for the Gods, common people could no longer go to the temple to pray to the Gods or bring the Gods gifts and even the household shrines and relics of the common people were forbidden. The only way the common people could worship Aten, was to worship Akhenaten and his wife Queen Nefertiti and their children. Even the concept of the Afterlife among the divine was changed to show the deceased worshipping Akenaten and Nefertiti in the Afterlife. Naturally, these policies were very unpopular among the common people who continued to worship in secret and they disliked being forced into this new religion, nor did they like this “disk in the sky” as a God.Following Akhenaten’s death, his wife Nefertiti and his brother who both ruled for a short time, attempted to keep these policies alive, but it was for not when Akhenaten’s son Tutankhaten and his wife Ankhesenaten, took the throne and, under pressure from the Priests restored the old faith and reopened the temples, returned to thieves and solidified the break by changing their names to Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun, respectively.After which Akhenaten was branded as the heretic King and great care was taken to remove any evidence of is rule. The topic is fascinating and there are tons of books on the subject, all of which can be found at any local library. Some of the best sources can be found here:·Silverman, David P, Jennifer House Wegner, Joseph W. Wegner. Akhenaten & Tutankhamen:Revolution and Restoration. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum ofArcheology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, 2006.·Aldred, Cyril.Akhenaten: Pharaoh of Egypt—a new study. New York NY, Toronto:·McGraw-Will Book Company, 1968.·Redford, Donald B. Akhenaten, the Heretic King.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.·Kemp, Barry J. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. Print.·Akhenaten - One of the Many Books of Hermes: As Told by Meritaten and Tutankhaten (tutankhamun). Xlibris Corp, 2012. Print.


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It was a reform directed to increase tax revenues; it also became very unpopular as most intendants were peninsulares, or people born in Spain. This increased unrest among criollos or people of Spanish descent born in the Americas.

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Was akhenaten's mummy ever found?

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