Location:
Egypt
Coordinates:
27.6450, 30.8990
Events at Akhetaten (6)
1346 BC
ID: 3652
Akhetaten founded - Akhenaten moves capital to virgin site, dedicated to Aten, abandons Thebes
ID: 3652
1344 BC
ID: 3653
Aten declared sole god - Akhenaten closes temples of other gods, erases names, priests dispossessed
ID: 3653
1340 BC
ID: 3654
Amarna art style flourishes - revolutionary naturalistic art depicts royal family intimately, elongated forms
ID: 3654
1336 BC
ID: 3655
Nefertiti disappears - either dies or falls from power, succession crisis begins
ID: 3655
1334 BC
ID: 3656
Death of Akhenaten - 'heretic pharaoh' dies, Amarna period ends, monotheistic experiment fails
ID: 3656
1319 BC
ID: 3659
Horemheb erases Amarna period - systematically destroys Akhetaten, removes names from records
ID: 3659