NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Smenkhkare, Neferneferuaten, Amarna Period
23 Jun 2016
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Akhenaten came to the throne as king amenhotep (iv) marries nefertiti as a very young man likely not intended as successor to the throne. High priest of ptah his older brother thutmose, who disappears from the records early and presumably died prematurely. Amenhotep iii, egypt was at the height of its power. Amarna letters give good impression of the international relations of the time year 5, amenhotep iv had changed his name. Nefer kheperu re wa en re akh en aten ( beautiful are the manifestations of re) Aten ( disk), the visible aspect of the sun, becomes, officially, the only god of egypt former king of gods, amun, is abandoned; his name is erased from all monuments. Akhenaten first built a temple to his god at karnak , to the east of the great temple of. Amun moved the capital from thebes to akhetaten.
