Amenhotep ii

Akhenaten's Reign

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  • 1358 BCE

    Name Change

    When Amenhotep IV decided to change the religion in Egypt he also decided to change is name to fit his religion.
  • 1358 BCE

    The closure of Amun's temple

  • 1353 BCE

    The four sun temples

    In his first years, he announced the building of for sun temples.
  • Period: 1353 BCE to 1336 BCE

    The Armana Period

    Akhenaten was one of the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty. He chose to rename himself after his conversion to the religion of the Aten. He is also know as the 'heretic king' and and one of the biggest things he did was change religion in Egypt.
  • 1348 BCE

    Change in religion

    When Akhenaten took the throne he was known as Amenhotep IV but he changed his name when he made his conversion to the cult of Aten. After a few years of being pharaoh he abolished the other gods and made Aten the only god (the first monotheism religion). This impacted a lot of people especially the priest as they were basically out of jobs.
  • 1346 BCE

    Akhetaten

    Akhetaten
    Akhenaten moves the capital from Thebes to Akhetaten, his newly made city located between Memphis and Thebes.
  • 1336 BCE

    Akhenaten's death

  • Period: 1336 BCE to 1327 BCE

    Tutankhamun's reign

    Tutankhamen, the son Akhenaten (supposedly) reverses Akhenaten's reforms and restores Egypt to it's traditional religion.
    He also moved the capital back to Thebes.
  • 1335 BCE

    Nefertiti's death

    After this time there was no longer any mention of Akhenaten's wife so there is a possibility that she died.
  • Period: 1327 BCE to 1320 BCE

    Ay's reign

    Ay, a vizier has a short reign after king tut and continues tut's polices.
  • 1323 BCE

    Tutankhamun's death

    There is speculation about him being assassinated however there is other evidence to suggest that he it was an accident or because of a cell disease.
  • Period: 1320 BCE to 1292 BCE

    Horemheb's reign

    Even though Tutankhamen tried to restore and fix what happened in the reign of Akhenaten, Horemheb made it his mission to restore Egypt's culture and erase everything from the amana period.
    He did this by removing all Aten related things including defacing temples, artefacts, monuments, and destroying the city of Akhetaten.
    He basically tried to remove Akhenaten for Egyptian's history.