🧭 Was Akhenaten a Monotheist—or a Heretic? Around 1350 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten did the unthinkable: he abandoned Egypt's centuries-old pantheon of gods and declared Aten—the radiant sun disc—as the one and only deity. He: 🌞 Shut down temples of Amun and other gods 🏛 Built a new capital, Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna) 📝 Composed hymns that sound eerily similar to later monotheistic scripture To some historians, he was the first true monotheist, a spiritual pioneer ahead of his time. To others,

Pharaoh Akhenaten's Revolutionary Monotheism in Ancient Egypt