📸 Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh Who Worshipped One God Over 3,000 years ago, Pharaoh Akhenaten changed everything. He abandoned Egypt’s traditional gods and introduced the worship of a single deity — the Aten, the sun disk. This radical shift shook the foundations of Egyptian religion and politics. Temples were closed, old traditions were banned, and a new capital city, Amarna, was built for his revolutionary faith. Historians still debate: was Akhenaten a visionary ahead of his time, or a her