
Akhenaten, the heretical pharaoh erased from history after his death through “damnatio memoriae”
Of all the pharaohs who reigned overAncient Egypt during the thousand-year history of Egyptian civilization, one of the least known was Akhenaten (1351-1334/1333 BC), of XVIII dynasty. A particular choice in religious matter implemented in the last years of his reign earned him the nickname of “heretic pharaoh” and caused, after his death, an operation of damnatio memoriae: the pharaoh ...








