Ramadan

In part 10 we covered the highest point of the Egyptian civilization as Thutmose III expanded the kingdom by his aggressive warfare and Amenhotep III brought it to its cultural peak. After the death of Amenhotep III, his previously shunned and ‘androgenous’ hybrid son Akhenaten becomes pharaoh. Akhenaten revives monotheism, the original Egyptian religion with the worship of a single controlling intelligence, as in Aten (Re/Ra,) represented by a sun disk, the Black Sun,