What Was Akhenaten Accomplishments

The 30-40 priests stood silently watching the boy-king as he read the decree. In one swift day, the corrupt religion of the Aten was swept away. The old gods would reign again. Akhenaten’s son would be the one responsible for destroying his own father’s religion. Even though this happened, Akhenaten is still important in history because he change Egypt from polytheistic to monotheistic, built seven structures at Karnack including the temple “Rud-menu” and Gempaaten, and made a new capital called Amarna and it was based off the sun. He was born in 1380 B.C. and in Egypt. He lived in a land that everyone was worshipping the god Amun. Amun was the most worshipped god in this time period He was said to be deformed and had Marfan’s syndrome there was a 50-50 chance that his children would get it too. His face and others body parts were elongated and he was shaped like a woman. His mother and father were Tyie and Amenhotep the III. Amenhotep III never had Akhenaten in any family carvings and statues because of his deformity.

Almost nothing is known about Akhenaten’s education. He had many siblings the most important was Thutmose he was supposed to become pharaoh, but he died and Akhenaten took his place. He married Nefertiti she was not royalty which is rare for a pharaoh to not marry royalty. She was the most

He had called himself god incarnation. He was ignored by some of his allies but the close ones he didn’t even help and lied to. He ordered to have all the plagues with the name of Amun chiseled out of the temples. He even chiseled Amunhotep III’s face off of a statue because it had the name Amun on it. He built several structures at Karnak including the structures “Rud-menu” and Gempaaten was the temple that Akhenaten lived in Akhenaten said that the land that the common people step on is not holy only the palace was holy. The Aten