Nefertiti and Akhenaten: The Heretic King and His Queen

In the fourteenth century BCE, the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV did something no ruler of the ancient world's most theologically conservative civilization had attempted: he dismantled the established religious order, suppressed the powerful priesthood of Amun, relocated the capital to a city built from nothing in the desert, and declared a single solar deity - the Aten - the sole focus of state w...