The Golden King and the Great Pharaoh King Tut :HisRestoration Role of Ancient Egyptian’s Religion (1334BC-1325BC)

Abstract

When Akhenaten inherited the throne during the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, he radically changed the foundation of the previous dynasties with the notion of believing in only one god—the sun disk known as Aten. But after his death, his son King Tut was given the throne at a very early age (age of eight). Unlike his father, King Tut did not uphold his father’s religious view of one god and started shifting Egypt back towards the cult of Amen.It was a well known fact that Akhenaten brought about a religious shift in Ancient Egyptian culture. This radical change came during the time that the cult of Amen( the worship of Amen) was quite popular and many Egyptian citizens enjoyed stability and prosperity due to Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III. Priests had become so powerful and their devotion to Amen was strong, but this refuge quickly changed once Amenhotep III’s son ascended the throne. He quickly began to overturn much of what his father had accomplished...