g to start and in a year he moved his family there. He changed his name to Akhenaten as well as his family members. (El Mahdy 1999: 87). The Queen assumed the identity of Tefaut from Nefertiti, daughter and wife of Atun the primordial sun- god (Alfred 1988: 225). He then locked himself and family in and is not really seen (El Mahdy 1999: 87). Inside the city all mentions of other gods were disallowed. Akhenaten went so far as to send his converts out into other cities and closed temples and destroyed the name of Amun and old gods (El Mahdy 1999: 87). The old way of burying the dead was also disallowed under Osiris. The people of the city sent there dead to be buried under the old ways (EL Mahdy 1999: 87). Akenaten married his daughters it also happened during his father Amenhoteps III (Alfred 1988: 225). Although being the daughter and wife of the king was not always a bad thing. If Nefertiti died the one daughter would take over as queen (Alfred 1988: 239). The other man they were married to also had a benefit of this when the king died they would become king and would take over the thrown (Alfred 1988: 239). So all these things Akhenaten did all showed his devotion to Aten. I also read somewhere that they thought he was a little crazy. By some of the things I have read about him it would not surprise me if he were.Another very strange thing was cities and countries loyal to Egypt would ask for military help or other things and would receive no response. They would write two or three times and Akhenaten did nothing for them (El Mahdy 1999: 88). In one case the messenger came to the castle and nothing happened the example of this is in the letters also from Amarna number EA 16.“Why should messengers be made to stay constantly out in the sun and so die?In the sun? If staying in the sun means profit for the king, then let him (a messenger)Stay out and let him die right there in the sun, (but) for the king hiself t...
