Akhenaten biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Akhenaten

Author Name:

Akhenaten

Born As:

Amenhotep IV

Other Names:

Also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, Ikhnaton and Khuenaten, meaning 'living spirit of Aten.'

Born:

c. 1375 BC

Died:

c. 1336 BC




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A Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt                          
                          
Father Amenhotep III
Mother Queen Tiye
Consorts - Nefertiti, Kiya, Meritaten, Ankhesenamun, and an  unidentified sister.

Children	 - Smenkhkare, Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenamun, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, Setepenre, Tutankhamun. Ankhesenpaaten-ta-sherit.                          
                          
This Pharaoh's  tomb was unearthed in 1907 in a dig led by Edward R. Ayrton.

King Tutankhamun, has been proved to be Akhenaten's son according to DNA testing in 2010.