If you don't know who Akhenaten is, he is the husband to the 'beautiful beyond description' Queen Nefertiti and the possible father of the 'Golden Boy' King Tutankhamun. But Akhenaten is best known in Egyptology as the Heretic King.
He defied 3000 years of tradition when he created the monotheistic worship of Aten, the sun disk god. He even relocated the capital of the civilisation to Amarna, a city approximately 322 km away from modern Cairo. However, the city and the worship of Aten lasted till his death, after which Tutankhamun resumed the 3000 year old Egyptian tradition and capital.
One may wonder how was life like at Amarna? Was it different (easier/worse) than life at Thebes?
Click the link below to find out what the Amarna Project recently discovered:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130313-ancient-egypt-akhenaten-amarna-cemetery-archaeology-science-world/
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