Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

(The name "aten" had simply been a word meaning "sun ... a combination of Thebes' deity Amun and the northern Egyptian sun god Ra. According to an inscription describing the pharaoh's conception ...

In Ancient Egypt, when someone important died ... he placed one god, the god Aten, above all others and introduced a Atenism. This was not a popular decision, so after he died Akhenaten's ...

In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten was no ... who profited from the worship of multiple gods. “He wanted to go to a place to worship Aten,” Hawass said, adding that he chose a site known ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology ... Under Akhenaten, the solar deity Aten was elevated above all others, including the principal state god Amun.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 'major' Egyptian town that was likely constructed ... Tutankhamun famously reversed his father’s worship of Aten the sun god and brought Egypt back to its ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes that ... Under Akhenaten, the solar deity Aten was elevated above all others, including the principal state god Amun. This ...