of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy. It is suggested that Akhenaten and his father ruled together for a brief time‚ but that is up for debate. After his father died‚ Akhenaten took over‚ as was his mother’s wishes. Akhenaten’s most famous wife was Nefertiti‚ who was made famous after a sculpture of her bust was found and put on display at the Berlin Museum. It is suggested‚ but not widely accepted‚ that his mother‚ Tiy‚ and Akhenaten acted as consorts to each other until she passed. Following in
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Orientgesellshaft‚ a German society created in 1898 in order to promote public interest and archaeological research towards Eastern antiquities‚ further excavated the Main City and the southern district‚ where they discovered the famous bust of Nefertiti in 1912. From 1921 to 1936‚ the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) founded surveys and excavations of almost every area of the city. This society‚ founded in 1882 in London and which aims at exploring‚ surveying and excavating ancient sites in Egypt
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During the 18th dynasty of Egypt‚ the Pharaoh Akhenaten took the throne. He worshiped a monotheistic religion based on the worship of Aten‚ a sun god. Artistic changes followed political disorder‚ although some artistic changes are obvious before his reign. A new trend of art was introduced that was more natural than the easier decorations favored in Egyptian art for the previous 1700 years. After Akhenaton’s death‚ Egyptian artists changed to their old habits meaning their original art form‚ even
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In spite of the ceremonial scenes of the Pharaoh praising Aten continues to be a crucial point of the period‚ there was a growing stress on the intimate displays of Akhenaten and Nefertiti playing with their daughters underneath the light of their god. Throughout initial years there has been a propensity for the artists to make the royal family members look just as disfigured as the Pharaoh. Their necks were elongated and narrow‚they
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King Tutankhamen was the 12th‚ and one of the last‚ Egyptian pharaoh’s of the 18th dynasty. He lived during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. As of today he is more commonly known as King Tut. He was born circa 1343BCE and was probably the son of the famous pharaoh Akhenaton and one of Akhenaten’s minor wives‚ either Nebetiah or Beketaten (Edwards 7). His original name‚ Tutankhaten‚ means the "Living Image of Aten". King Tut suffered from many health problems throughout
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probably forced to abdicate and died soon after. His 9-year-old son‚ Tutankhaten‚ took over around 1332 B.C.E. Boy King in Power The same year that Tutankhaten took power‚ he married Ankhesenamun‚ his half sister and the daughter of Ikhanaton and Nefertiti. It is known that the young couple had two daughters‚ both stillborn. Due to Tutankhaten’s young
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Akhenaten. Akhenaten encouraged artistic inventiveness and realism. The walls of the temples and houses were painted in an eccentric new style. There were colossal statues of Akhenaten‚ the paintings from his private residence‚ the bust of his wife Nefertiti‚ and that of his mother Queen Tiy. These works are unique in Egyptian art as they do not flatter the king and his family but rather reveal them as real people‚ which is at their best interest. Akhenaten did not contribute as much as his father did
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Why did Akhenaten overthrow the traditional Egyptian religion in favor of a monotheistic religion? The "heretic king" Akhenaten "Beneficial for Aten" was born Amenhophis IV "Amun is satisfied". (Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Volume I‚ pg 49) By the time he was seated as pharaoh in 1350 BCE there was already growing tension between the priesthood of Amun and his father Amenhophis III. "The power of the priesthood of Amun was threatening the traditional kingship‚" (Handout‚ The Legacy
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the rays of Aten. In this new settlement he again defies ancient traditions and marries a commoner‚ Nefertiti. Together they ruled almost equally. Within his regime to further embrace Aten he created the hymn of Aten which praises the sun as the creator of the natural world. This hymn had an overall general message which is life comes from the sun god and is distributed equally. Suddenly‚ Nefertiti vanished out of existence and historians today still don’t know what became of her. Along with this
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consecutive campaigns of three to four months. But all that work paid off‚ as the archaeologists found many spectacular treasures. They found over 18‚000 artifacts that may have been ordered by royalty‚ including a golden seal of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. One of the many artifacts was the "Metal Biscuit
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