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[[File:Akhenaten.jpg|right|thumb|Pharaoh Akhenaten]]

[[File:Akhenaten.jpg|right|thumb|Pharaoh Akhenaten]]

'''Akhenaten''', also Akhenaton, Ikhnaton, or Amenhotep IV, was [[pharaoh]] of [[Egypt]] from 1352 - 1336 [[B.C.]] a member of the Eighteenth dynasty. He led a religious revolution, rejected the traditional gods of Egypt, and worshiped the disk of the Sun, which he called [[Aten]]. He moved the capital from [[Thebes]] to Akhenaten (modern [[Amarna]]) to escape the influence of the priests of [[Amun]].

'''Akhenaten''', also Akhenaton, Ikhnaton, or Amenhotep IV, was [[pharaoh]] of [[Egypt]] from 1352 - 1336 [[B.C.]] a member of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He led a religious revolution, rejected the traditional gods of Egypt, and worshiped the disk of the Sun, which he called [[Aten]]. He moved the capital from [[Thebes]] to [[Amarna]] to escape the influence of the priests of [[Amun]].

Statues of him show an artistic form new in Egypt, including various deformities which have led some scholars to conclude he had some kind of deformity or genetic disease. A thorough examination of the royal mummies did not uncover evidence of unusual diseases or deformities, so the depictions are most likely an artistic style.<ref name=Hawass>Hawass, Zahi, PhD, et al., "[http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185393 Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family]", ''Journal of the American Medical Association''</ref>

Statues of him show an artistic form new in Egypt, including various deformities which have led some scholars to conclude he had some kind of deformity or genetic disease. A thorough examination of the royal mummies did not uncover evidence of unusual diseases or deformities, so the depictions are most likely an artistic style.<ref name=Hawass>Hawass, Zahi, PhD, et al., "[http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185393 Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family]", ''Journal of the American Medical Association''</ref>