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What Do the Ruins of Amarna Reveal About Royal Power? - Akhenaten and the Limits of Royal Power in Ancient Egypt | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the fourteenth century BCE, a pharaoh abandoned the religious heart of his kingdom to build an entirely new desert city dedicated to a single solar deity. Akhenaten called his new capital Akhetaten, and into this empty landscape he moved his court, his family, and his radically transformed state religion. He carved an oath into the desert cliffs promising never to leave, dispatched workers across Egypt to chisel the name of the dominant god Amun from temple walls, and reshaped official…
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