The king who rewrote the state religion and built a city from bare desert

Around 1352 BCE Akhenaten overturned Egypt's long-established religious order, elevating a single solar deity — the Aten, shown as a rayed sun-disk — above the traditional gods, and raised an entire new capital from empty desert at a site now called Amarna. Within roughly a generation of his death the old order was restored and his city was abandoned.

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