Egypt's Most Controversial Pharaoh | Absolute History

I get a good laugh whenever I imagine background music being played by a guy lurking behind the Egyptologist

Always awesome when Tywin Lannister narrates like a boss

Thanks for the upload, Pharaoh Akhenaten was the strangest of the Pharaoh's even the way he was depicted in Art

Just in case anyone was wondering, the thumbnail doesn’t depict Akhenaten but Ramesses II. Those colossal statues can be seen at Luxor. Pretty cool.

Akhenaten's brother crown prince Thutmose was their father's, Amenhotep III, first born, who mysteriously died at a young age (as a result of the "Passover"), making Akhenaten next in line as Pharaoh. His reign began in 1353 BC, which is approximately the same time that the Exodus is estimated to have taken place. It makes perfect sense that Amenhotep III was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and that Akhenaten was inspired by the appearance of the "pillar of cloud" or "spirit and glory of the Lord", the flaming discs that fought off the Egyptian army all night long while the Red Sea parted for the Hebrews to cross into Sinai. Possibly he accompanied his father during the attack on the escaping Hebrews, or he may have heard about the incident after the fact. Seeing personally, or hearing about, the actual appearance of Aten, or "the sun disc", actually making a physical appearance and giving a display of his power, as Aten appeared to do while protecting the Hebrew army, may have shocked Akhenaten into deciding to worship Aten above all other gods. If there WAS ever an "Exodus", Amenhotep III fits perfectly into all the holes required for this position.

I'm second but I would like to hear the rest of this it seems like show was dropped off our way through there's any more to it I think I would like to hear more this I've always been fascinated by ancient history especially Egypt in history and also my own Celtic history as I am of Celtic descent

And also,really neat vid

DID AkhenAten's "vision" die with him?? Or did it carry on well into present day religions?

very much so. one of the greatest offenses you can cause is try to destroy the established religion.

I'm very much liking the music of the intro 🎶😂 NOiCe

You should put the original publication/air date on these. I'd like them more, anyway.

12:51 This dude reminds me of the drunk sea captain in the movie Jaws

There is nothing rushed about high quality relief carving

Historians are still ignoring the significance of the volcanic eruption on modern-day Santorini which spread ash from the Black Sea all the way to Egypt. This most likely blocked out the Sun for a long time making people think that the Sun God was upset. It makes sense that a monotheistic religion devoted to the sun god would have developed. This would have also caused chaotic migrations in the entire Mediterranean which the Egyptian refer to as the sea people. The other thing that does not get enough attention is once Egyptian monotheistic religion was condemned, it is natural that those people would have fled into the desert and most likely mixed with the sea people becoming the Hebrews. The earliest Hebrew writings date at least 400 years after the fact. So it makes sense that the details would have been lost. The order and timing of events would have been mixed up when presented in the modern-day Hebrew scriptures. Every Mediterranean society and religion between 1,000 and 1,600 BC would somehow reflect be massive volcanic event that happened on Santorini.

Velikovsky explained it all a long time ago in his book "Oedipus and Akhnaton". Problem is, the academic establishment was not listening.

Cool never heard of him.

Look at the relative size difference between him and Nefertiti and others. It's likely that the 10ft tall statue of him was life size. The Egyptian museum has a number of sarcophagi that would suit regular size people and a smaller number that are 10' long. He, his wife and children are depicted with the elongated heads (common amongst the Egyptian ruling class) but like many other Pharoahs, Akhenaten wore huge headdresses for a practical reason. Previous Pharoahs had themselves portrayed through perfect styalised images, he commissioned artwork that portrayed him and his family as they were, however strange they looked. Egyptian artwork is full of people in different sizes.

A study published in 2017 described the extraction and analysis of DNA from 151 mummified ancient Egyptian individuals, whose remains were recovered from Abusir el-Meleq in the Cairo Governate. The study was able to measure the mitochondrial DNA of 90 individuals, and it showed that Ancient Egyptians had the greatest affinity for modern Middle Eastern (Arab, Levantine and Anatolian) populations, and had significantly more affinity with south-eastern Europeans than with sub-Saharan Africans.

This is very interesting.

This guy was definitely the pharaoh during The Exodus. The Bible says the Hebrew's worked as slaves in mudbrick. This guy's rushed mudbrick building project fits that. The pyramids are built of stone. It's also no coincidence that this guy changed the Egyptian religion to the worship of one god, then the next pharaoh promptly changed it back to many.