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 ...

(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 ...

Within years of ascending the throne, he turned away from traditional Egyptian polytheism to the worship of a single god: The Aten. Was this an early form of monotheism? Republicans suggest ...

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.