# Akhenaten The first fact about Akhenaten is an exclusive court cult and a commanded city, not a marble monotheist. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten and Amarna at https://www.britannica.com/place/Tell-el-Amarna frame the reconstructed reign. The Amarna Project at https://www.amarnaproject.com/ prints the city and a workmen’s village. OI at https://oi.uchicago.edu/ publishes the letters. Met Heilbrunn at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amar/hd_amar.htm is a public essay. Berlin’s museum at https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/aegyptisches-museum-und-papyrussammlung/home/ presents a 1912 court object after removal. Thebes listing at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87/ conserves a landscape of later name-war. The offsets are also URLs. Published letters are an archive. Egyptian antiquities pages at https://egymonuments.gov.eg/ present sites. Ashmolean at https://www.ashmolean.org/ and Penn at https://www.penn.museum/ are collections. What the score must not say: that he invented modern monotheism; that 1912 is his gift; that unanswered tablets are a unique body count; that later kings’ restorations are his handwriting. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the city, letters, and museum objects, medium on unique neglect coefficients, low on private theology. Related people are Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Amenhotep III. 1912 is a find. 1915 is a book. 2000 is a project site. The useful question is which later public pages still move exclusive cult, commanded brick, and vassal-file under his name. Keep Aten city letters and 1912 find on separate dates. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: -1348-01-01 Aten worship is elevated as a completed exclusive court cult; -1347-01-01 Amun-temple disruption and name attacks are received royal policy; -1346-01-01 Akhetaten is founded as a completed capital move; -1345-01-01 Akhetaten is a rapidly built court city of commanded labour; -1349-01-01 Amenhotep IV becomes Akhenaten as a completed public renaming; -1340-01-01 The Amarna letters are a completed diplomatic-crisis archive of the court; -1342-01-01 The Amarna body-canon is a completed court visual control; -1343-01-01 Recut names and later damnatio are a completed name-war in the Theban landscape; -1338-01-01 Amarna letters print requests for troops that the court file does not obviously answer; -1344-01-01 A workmen’s village is a completed labour-compound of the new city; -1336-01-01 The Amarna letters are a public diplomatic file that shows limits of court control. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. This catalog keeps only instruments dated to the lifetime (or received lifetime date) of Akhenaten. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. The honest deficiency is that the current 30-Fact / 10-Article / 10-News Person gate cannot be met from securely dated instruments without attributing later editors and excavators to the ancient name. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. Hostile vita slander is not upgraded. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Confidence is high on named public pages, medium on unique coefficients, low on anecdote. ## Dated facts - 1351: A received coregency with Amenhotep III opens the Aten-court file. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-coregency-iii. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amenhotep-III, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten. - 1349: Early Aten temples such as Gem-pa-Aten are built at Karnak before the move. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-gem-pa-aten. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Karnak, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten. - 1349: Amenhotep IV becomes Akhenaten as a completed public renaming. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-name-change. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amar/hd_amar.htm. - 1347: Aten worship is elevated as a completed exclusive court cult. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-aten-exclusive. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amar/hd_amar.htm. - 1347: Amun-temple disruption and name attacks are received royal policy. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-temple-closures. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/. - 1346: Boundary stelae mark Akhetaten’s limits as a royal land-claim. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-boundary-stelae. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1346: Akhetaten is founded as a completed capital move. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-akhetaten-move. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Tell-el-Amarna, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1345: The Great Hymn to the Aten is inscribed as a public cult poem. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-great-hymn. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1345: Akhetaten is a rapidly built court city of commanded labour. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-commanded-build. Sources: https://egymonuments.gov.eg/, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1344: Sesebi in Nubia is built as an Aten-period temple town. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-sesebi. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akhenaten, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1344: A workmen’s village is a completed labour-compound of the new city. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-worker-village. Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/, https://www.amarnaproject.com/. - 1343: Recut names and later damnatio are a completed name-war in the Theban landscape. https://factrail.ai/facts/akh-theban-erasure. Sources: https://egymonuments.gov.eg/, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/akhenaten