Similar words: concatenate, hyphenated, concatenation, antenatal, Senate, alienate, alienated, rejuvenate. Meaning: n. early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC).
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1. Now Akhenaten's 3,400-year-old world has been brilliantly recalled in an exhibit titled "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," which opens this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
2. History records that Akhenaten married both the famous Nefertiti (above) and a woman named Kiya (next photo), but neither of these two women was ever said to be his sister.
3. Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362 BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years.
4. His son shook things up even more, not only changing his name to honor the new god (Akhenaten means "one who serves Aten") but also banishing the older gods, especially the priestly favorite Amen.
5. Akhenaten (ah-keh-NAH-ten), best known for introducing a revolutionary form of monotheism to ancient Egypt, reigned in the mid-1300s B.C.
6. A limestone stela from Amarna depicts pharaoh Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their daughters beneath the rays of the solar disk, symbol of the god Aten.
7. The pharaoh Akhenaten began to build his new city by placing boundary markers to define its limits.
8. Depictions of Akhenaten with a bizarre feminine physique were due to the belief that god represented by the pharaoh was androgynous .
9. During the reign of Akhenaten. the sun was worshipped as the Aten.
10. They range from larger-than-life statues of Akhenaten to exquisitely sculpted reliefs and dazzling jewelry to such poignant reminders of everyday life as a perfectly preserved child's sandal.
11. Scientists have identified Akhenaten, the " heretic " king who introduced monotheism to ancient Egypt, as Tutankhamun's father.
12. Would Merymose, who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself, be able to feel any sympathy at all?
13. Freud postulated that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman who adhered to the monotheism of Akhenaten.
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14. The identity of King Tut's father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.
15. We now knew we had the body of Tut's father—but we still did not know for certain who he was. Our chief suspects were Akhenaten and Smenkhkare.
16. If so, she is most likely Ankhesenamun, a daughter of Akhenaten and the only known wife of Tutankhamun.
17. Hawass said there is an "overwhelming amount of statuary" depicting the ruler, who was the father of Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten.
18. A team of 11 members has already begun the restoration work, starting from the statue of Akhenaten carrying an offering tray.
19. More than anyone else, this great king would work to erase from history all traces of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and the other "heretics" of the Amarna period.
20. By studying his and his male relative’s Y-chromosomes, scientists laid to rest theories that Tut and his father Akhenaten were hermaphrodites or androgynous in appearance.
21. Though the coffin's cartouches—oval rings containing the pharaoh's names—had been chiseled off, the coffin bore epithets associated only with Akhenaten himself.
22. The KV55 tomb contained a cache of material thought to have been brought by Tutankhamun to Thebes from Amarna, where Akhenaten (and perhaps Smenkhkare) had been buried.
23. They are dated to 150 years before the cuneiform correspondence found in the capital of Akhenaten at Tel El-Amarna.
24. "The bust of Nefertiti, upon its return, will be exhibited at the Akhenaten Museum in Minya opening in early 2012, " Hawass said.
25. The face of Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships; the head and shoulders of the beautiful wife of Sun King Akhenaten look set to launch a thousand angry petitions from curators in Cairo.
26. It was a brief, shining moment in Egypt's history--a time of epochal change presided over by a Pharaoh named Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti.
27. In the fifth year of his reign, he changes his name to Akhenaten—"he who is beneficial to the Aten."
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