Akhanaten & Nefertiti

When Akhanaten became Pharaoh of Egypt, around the year 1360 B.C., he kindled a religious revolution: He wanted to restrict worship to the Sun-god, Atun. Egypt had been a polytheistic realm for more than 2,000 years.

Pharaoh Akhanaten would plunge the realm into a crisis. The young king forced a revolutionary new faith on the people: They had to believe that only a single god could bring salvation: Atun, the burning sun.

First rumours about a forgotten Pharaoh reached Europe in the middle of the 19th century. The first evidence was found by the scholar Richard Lepsius. From Cairo, his journeys took him south. He kept an exhaustive diary.