The History of Egypt

113: Akhenaten, Effective for Aten

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Akhenaten (Part 6): New Name, Who Dis? In regnal year 5, Amunhotep IV reached the conclusion of his early ideological development. His views had crystallized and he was ready to express them more explicitly than before. Soon, pharaoh issued a public declaration; he would now be called Akh-en-Aten...

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    • Select Bibliography:

    • Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten King of Egypt, 1988 edition.
    • Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. V: the Smaller Tombs and Boundary Stelae, 1908. Available at Archive.org
    • Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.
    • Francis Llewellyn Griffith, The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob, 1898. Available at Archive.org
    • James K. Hoffmeier, Akhenaten & the Origins of Monotheism, 2015.
    • Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.
    • Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, 2005.
    • William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
    • Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1987.

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