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The Canon · No. 008
Atenism
The Amarna heresy
c.1353 – c.1332 BCE · Ancient Near East · Extinct · Egypt (Akhetaten / Tell el-Amarna)
II. THE FIRST CIVILISATIONS — c.3000 – 1000 BCE
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- c.1353 BCE Amenhotep IV accedes; builds Aten temples at Karnak, provocatively beside Amun's.
- Year 5, c.1348 BCE Takes the name Akhenaten; founds a new capital, Akhetaten, on virgin ground so no other god has a claim to it.
- Year 9 The Aten's name is reformulated; systematic erasure of Amun and of the plural word gods begins.
- c.1336–1334 BCE Akhenaten dies; the brief reigns of Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten.
- c.1332 BCE Tutankhaten becomes Tutankhamun; the Restoration Stela reverses the whole reform.
- c.1319–1292 BCE Horemheb demolishes Akhetaten, reuses the stone as fill, and strikes Akhenaten from the king lists as the enemy.
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