because it was uncontaminated by the worship of any god. A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna ...

With the revolutionary zeal of a Lenin or Mao, Akhenaten swept away the old religion, replacing it with a monotheistic cult worship of the sun-disc Aten. He built a new capital city, Akhetaten ...