Philip Glass - Akhnaten Scene 2 The Coronation of Akhnaten
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wikipedia: Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983. ..
Akhenaten .. known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, ..), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty ... He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic. He was all but lost from history until the discovery, in the 19th century, of Amarna. .. Interest in Akhenaten increased with the discovery in the Valley of the Kings, at Luxor, of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, who has been proved to be Akhenaten's son according to DNA testing in 2010 by Zahi Hawass of Cairo.[11] A mummy found in KV55 in 1907 almost certainly belongs to Akhenaten. ..his Queen, Nefertiti. ...
Akhenaten .. known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, ..), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty ... He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic. He was all but lost from history until the discovery, in the 19th century, of Amarna. .. Interest in Akhenaten increased with the discovery in the Valley of the Kings, at Luxor, of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, who has been proved to be Akhenaten's son according to DNA testing in 2010 by Zahi Hawass of Cairo.[11] A mummy found in KV55 in 1907 almost certainly belongs to Akhenaten. ..his Queen, Nefertiti. ...