Akhenaten: Egypt's Revolutionary Pharaoh

Akhenaten (also sometimes spelled Akhenoten, Akhnaten, or Ikhenaten, and possibly more accurately known as Ukhenayatai) was an 18th Dynasty Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt who enacted a monotheist religious revolution so scandalous that future Pharaohs would attempt to erase him from history. So, who was this subversive figure, and how did he differ from other Pharaohs?

This is a remake of the first video I ever made for this channel, updated with a bit of new information and significantly improved audio and visuals. The script for this video was based on an essay which I wrote in 2017. Unfortunately, several of the pages I used as sources are no longer accessible. I included these citations at the end of the video, just in case they're archived somewhere.

Works Cited (see closed captions for in-text citations):
Allen, James P. “The Religion of Amarna.” Essay. In The Royal Women of Amarna, 3–5. New York City, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.*
Boundless. “Book version 24 – Art History by Boundless - Chapter 4: Ancient Egyptian
Art.” Boundless.com. (Accessed June 10th, 2017)
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*I actually got the information I cite this one for from a documentary featuring the same author, but I'm not 100% sure what the documentary was called (it may have been "Egypt: Land of the Gods" (2002), but I'm not able to check), and this source says more or less the same thing, albeit with a bit less detail.

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00:00 Intro
00:56 Note on Pronunciation
01:20 Amenhotep IV
02:27 The Heretic King
03:24 Atenism
05:22 The New Capital
06:36 Th Amarna Period
08:25 Conclusion