The fact that Akhenaten had several children argues against these suggestions.
Many scholars have speculated about possible explanations for Akhenaten's physical appearance.
Akhenaten was in many respects a weak ruler, who neglected external affairs to concentrate on internal ones.
Akhenaten’s legacy also lives on through the Rosicrucians, whose Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California, includes a shrine to the Pharaoh.
A group of Egypt's other allies who attempted to rebel against the Hittites were captured, and wrote begging Akhenaten for troops; he evidently did not respond to their pleas.
Crucial evidence about the latter stages of Akhenaten's reign was furnished by discovery of the so-called "Amarna Letters."
There has been much speculation about possible links between Akhenaten and Moses.
Akhenaten's chief wife was Nefertiti, who has been made famous as the most “beautiful women in the world” by her bust in the Дgyptisches Museum in Berlin.
Significantly, and for the only time in the history of Egyptian royal art, Akhenaten's family was depicted in a decidedly naturalistic manner, and they are clearly shown displaying affection for each other.
Suggested dates for Akhenaten's reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1367 B.C.E.
Brier speculates that this may explain Akhenaten's appearance, and perhaps his fascination with the sun - since Marfan's sufferers often feel cold easily.
The prevalence of disease may help explain the rapidity with which the site of Akhenaten was subsequently abandoned.
Fascination for Akhenaten has resulted in quite a number of works of fictions, including two by Nobel Prize winners (Naguib and Thomas Mann).
Akhenaten planned to start a relocated Valley of the Kings, in the Royal Wadi in Akhetaten.
Freud comments that while we do not know much about Akhenaten's religion because he followed the restoration of the cult of Amon who destroyed artifacts, but Freud nonetheless compares and contrasts Mosaic and Armana religion.
Akhenaten (then known as Amenhotep IV) was married to Nefertiti at the very beginning of his reign, and the couple had six known daughters.
Rosicrucians trace their ideological origin back to Egypt and teach that Akhenaten's ideal was that there was one divine force behind all things, even the many gods of Egypt.
Akhenaten is also remarkable for having afforded his chief wife considerable authority, which has been described as unprecedented in Egyptian history.
Agamemnon agreed and sent Odysseus and two other chieftains to Achilles with the offer of the return of Briseis and other gifts.
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Recently Ahmed Osman has claimed that Moses and Akhenaten were one and the same person, supporting his belief by interpreting aspects of biblical and Egyptian history.
Instead, Velikovsky identifies Akhenaten as the history behind Oedipus and moved the setting from the Greek Thebes to the Egyptian Thebes.
Artists tended to show Akhenaten's children as suffering the same physical character as their father.
The “dreamer Akhenaten” had alienated his own people, too, who did not warm to his new creed, so Moses thought that another people might be more receptive.
Osman, for example, writes " from historical sources, Akhenaten is the first person we know of to introduce worship of one God" (Osman: 162).
Textual scholars often theorize that these two roles originate from separate sources, which later were spliced together to form the Book(s) of Samuel.
The idea of Akhenaten as the pioneer of monotheistic religion was promoted by Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis), in his book Moses and Monotheism and thereby entered popular consciousness.
According to Freud, Moses was an Egyptian (not a Hebrew) close to Akhenaten.
Tutankhamun is believed to be a younger brother of Smenkhkare and a son of either Amenhotep III or Akhenaten.
Under the new chief sculptor Thutmose, Akhenaten is depicted as more normal looking.
Nefertiti is also generally believed to have been from non-royal blood, although some suggest that she was Akhenaten's sister or cousin.
The fact that Akhenaten had several children argues against these suggestions.
Akhenaten's reform may have been partly motivated by the desire to curb the power of the priests, whose wealth and power rivaled the Pharoahs, by assuming a priestly role for himself.