'''Akhenaten''', or '''Amenhotep IV''', was [[pharaoh]] of [[Egypt]] from 1353 - 1336 [[B.C.]] as part of the 18th dynasty. He is famous for rejecting rejected the traditional [[pagan]] gods of Egypt in favor of the sun, which he called [[Aton]]. He changed moved the capital from [[Thebes]] to Akhetaton (modern [[Amarna]]) to escape the influence of the priests of [[Ra]].
Statues of him show an artistic form new in Egypt, including various deformities which have led some scholars to conclude he had [[Marfan's syndrome]] or [[Frolich’s syndrome]]. However, various courtiers were also depicted similarly.<ref name="AIG">John Ashton & David Down. ''[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/utp/akhenaten-and-nefertiti-the-beautiful Unwrapping the Pharaohs, chapter 21]'''</ref>
== Akhenaten and Moses ==
The similarities between Akhenaten's monotheism and the monotheism described in the [[Pentateuch]] has led some historians to speculate about correlations between Akhenaten and Moses. Akhenaten's religion is thought to have been the first earliest historical example of a monotheistic religious belief to arisereligion.
[[Sigmund Freud]] proposed that Moses was Ikhnaton's priest, and that the [[Exodus]] happened soon after the pharaoh's death<ref>[[Moses And Monotheism]], by Freud; see chapter "If Moses was an egyptian" at [http://www.archive.org/stream/mosesandmonothei032233mbp/mosesandmonothei032233mbp_djvu.txt www.archive.org]</ref>.