Akhenaten
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outlawed the old Egyptian religion proclaimed himself the living incarnation of a single all-powerful deity known as Aten he had closed all the temples and suppressed religious practices Priests of Amun who had the time and resources hid statuary and texts from the palace guards sent to destroy them
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- outlawed the old Egyptian religion
- proclaimed himself the living incarnation of a single all-powerful deity known as Aten
- he had closed all the temples and suppressed religious practices
- Priests of Amun who had the time and resources hid statuary and texts from the palace guards sent to destroy them and then abandoned their temple complexes. Akhenaten ordained new priests, or simply forced priests of Amun into the service of his new monotheism, and proclaimed himself and his queen gods.
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