Under what name did Pharaoh Tutankhamun ascend the throne and why did he change it? Detailed answer

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Under what name did Pharaoh Tutankhamun ascend the throne and why did he change it?

Tutankhamen's father was the heretic pharaoh Amenhotep IV (1364-1347 BC). Trying to break the power of the Theban priesthood and the old nobility, Amenhotep IV declared the supreme deity Aton, personifying the solar disk. He forbade the worship of all other gods and ordered that their names be destroyed on sacred inscriptions, that all images of the god Amun be smashed and all mention of him be erased even from clay tablets in the pharaoh's archive. He himself took the name Akhenaten ("pleasing to the Aten").

In the fourth year of his reign, Akhenaten moved the capital from Thebes to the Akhetaten he built (the "horizon of the Aten"). However, the cult of the Aten met with growing resistance from all segments of the population.

After the death of Akhenaten, his 8-year-old son took the throne under the name Tutankhaton ("living image of Aton"). In the first year of his reign, he moved his residence from Akhetaten to Memphis, and then changed his name to Tutankhamun ("sent down by Amon").

The nine-year reign of Tutankhamun was very ordinary. He became famous only due to the fact that his tomb was discovered in 1922 in an unlooted state. This tomb, apparently inferior in luxury to the tombs of the great pharaohs, nevertheless contained such priceless treasures that its discovery struck the imagination of the world community and greatly increased the widespread interest in archeology.

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