Akhenaten
noun
original name amenhotep iv. died ?1358 bc, king of egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from thebes to tell el amarna and introduced the cult of aten
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king akhenaten was one of the most original minds known to us in egyptian history.
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