AKHENATEN

most of us – including me – prefer more powerful kings, maybe eamses II or the III, may be Thothmose III

for me my favorite king is Ahmose who freed Egypt of the Hycsos .

That was for kings , for era I adore the time of pyramid builders Dynasty 3,4 , and 5 who build those miraculous genius building with insane accuracy just with very primitive simple tools .

So what is making that Heretic weak king : Amenhotep IV , Later Akhenaten so famous and special in Egyptian History ??!.

the revolution of Akenaten Was very Human, The Holy devine king sone of gods ruler of the earth , became a man who is portrayed with all the illness and body deformation that he suffers, even more his human relationship with his family was portrayed in artistic way
just like any average man .

Amun / Amen ,The old God of Thebe as his name tells was hidden god inside dark closed shrines , The Idol was only seen and served by the high priest and the king ,
While the new god Aten was worshiped outdoors in an open temple
was Aten a modified form of The Sun God Re of the Old Kingdom ??
Was he another image of the God Atum / Atem the similarity of the two names is clear ,
was he a foreign god came from Asia for example was he inspired by the Hebrews God Jehovah ??
Or did he inspire the Hebrews ? , the similarity of some psalms and Akhenaten ‘s hymens is ??!.

Akhetaten “Amarna ” ‘s art of was liberated from the formality of Egyptian traditional art ,
The divine king always portrayed as a young strong man , handsome with no body errors , But Akhenaten is shown with feminine like body skinny arms and legs , playing with his daughter and wife