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Akhenaten - A Pharaoh Obsessed
🕑 Added 2019-11-15 18:31:00 +0000 UTCQueen Nefertiti's husband Akhenaten was a bit of an unusual pharaoh. So unusual his successors tried (and almost successfully!) erased him from history. What exactly did Akhenaten do that warranted such an extreme response? He tried to unite the Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Egypt, commissioned radically different art, and... tried to forcibly convert all citizens to worshiping his one and only god, Aten. Not a great look for a ruler of a mostly polytheistic society. But hey, a sun disk with multiple arms is a pretty neat looking god!
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Bill Lemmond
Thank you. Somewhere, I have a historic novel about Akhenaten, which I still haven't started reading, decades later. So thank you for this brief look that fits my busy life better. Sorry, old book. I know you're sad.
Can’t Think Of A Name
I seen a part of it 1:04 had something on the throne like to weird lion heads
Tiberia Prima
Zoey, stay away from the - ah crap, there she goes again.
Martin Verran
More Egypt! More Egypt! More Egypt! More Kittens!...eh?
