A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna stelae like this were erected as shrines in elite residences.

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the ... traditional Egyptian polytheism to the worship of a single god: The Aten. Was this an early form of monotheism? What time does the Super Bowl ...

Akhenaten decided to overturn the entire religious ... many gods and declared that there was only one god, the Sun - the 'Aten'. To the ancient Egyptians this was heresy, but as he was the pharaoh ...

Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't. He outlawed all of the gods except for one called Aten. The people were very unhappy with this change and, after Akhenaten's death ...

(Akhenaten was the "rebel" pharaoh who established the world's first monotheistic religion, based on a belief in the Aten, or sun disk.) Notice the meticulous carving of hair in this detail from ...