The eighteenth Egyptian dynasty seems to be forgotten in history yet the nineteenth, Tutankhamun’s reign, has become the most well-known throughout Egyptian studies. It was dynasty led by a pharaoh who would one day be struck from history and be cast in the shadow of his successor. Akhenaten the historical, cultural, and religious reformist. Akhenaten was a religious reformist. Akhenaten was viewed by the majority of Egyptian people as a heretic and upon his death he was completely wiped from his people’s history and his reign quickly forgotten under the new rule of his successor and son, Tutankhamen. Akhenaten was like no other pharaoh before him. He, from the first day of his reign in roughly 1353 BC, seemed set on changing an entire nation’s
