Posted by Levictus on November 11, 1997 at 13:16:52:
I have recently been reading and writing about ancient Egypt. In my research I have come up with a problem. The two text books I have say that Ihknaten was the pharoah of the 18th dynasty (Father of King Tut, Nefertiti's husband) that attempted to convert egypt to monotheism. But in other sources ("The Twelfth Transforming" by Pauline Gedge) he is refered to as Akenaten or Akhnaton. To confuse matters even more his original name was Amenhotep IV or Amenophis IV and he changed it himself. The city that he constructed was also named after him (whatever his name was). Does anyone know what the story is, did they make some recent discovery that negates my older reference material? I just don't want to look stupid when my international best seller is released and the pharoah's name is spelt wrong.
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