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Akhenaton “the Alien hybrid” pharaoh according to Ancient Alien theorists

The argument is “WhY dOesS AkHenAtOn lOok DiffreN to OhEr PhaRaOhs? ALIEMS????”

Here’s the answer and its a wild fucking ride, lemme tell you.

Akhenaton was a fucking revolutionary Pharaoh and almost single handedly tried to rewrite ALL of ancient Egypt’s religion during his rule. He;

1: Moved Egypt’s Capital to a new city further down the Nile called Akhenaton after himself which is entirely based on worshiping the singular god, Aten.
2: Established a new religion that saw a singular god called “Aten” rather than an entire pantheon and esentially said “Yeah all those other gods we’ve been worshiping for literally thousands of years? Yeah just throw those out. They’re not canon now”
3: Re-worked how ancient Egyptian art was drawn (and this is the big one) where he was essentially bored with the “Eyptian style” of art and instead urged all HIS depictions in art capture his appearance more accurately to real life. His frescos also, unlike any other pharoah, show him in domestic scenes, spending time with his wife and children in very mundane, every day situations

(an image of Akhenaton with his wife playing with their young children. Akhenaton is shown kissing one of his daughters in fatherly affection)

Akhenaton was not traditionally handsome (probably thanks to hundreds of years of inbreeding thanks to how Ancient Egyptian royalty worked) and did not want to be depicted in a way that wasn’t true to himself. So his image is always shown as gangly with long limbs, slightly over-weight with a belly, elongated features and pronounced lips.

So….. this kind of really REALLY fucking pissed off literally every high ranking priest in all of Egypt because they’re now, to put it plainly, out of a job. Akhenaton’s moving of the capital also severely crippled the religious structure, moving political power away from where most of the greatest temples were, and since the Pharoahs are meant to be living gods on Earth, what does it say when the gods of Earth don’t live in the same city any more?

Akhenaton dies from unknown reasons but most likely the same genetic disease that gave him his appearance (some have obviously suggested assassination but there is no proof of this that’s been found and it remains up for debate) and the priests and historians go about striking his name from history and destroying and defacing artwork depicting him and his new religion.

(whoops)

He is then excluded from the king lists and is referred by later Dynasties as “The Enemy” or “That Criminal” in archival records. When Akhenaton’s mummy was located his sarcophagus and funerary mask were both deliberately destroyed.

You may have heard of his wife, btw. Nefertiti.

You ever wonder why she’s called the most beauiful woman in history? It’s probably because she was one of the few Pharaoh women accurate sculpted to relfect what she really looked like, versus a stock style.

also fun fact, this most famous image of her is an incomplete wooden bust found in the ruins of a sculptors’ workshop, presumeably because she was killed before he could finish it and he was like “aw shit… NOW what do I do with this?”

Now the problem is, the priests can’t just appoint a brand new Pharaoh, because pharoahs are descended from the gods themselves and their blood can’t be mixed with that of mere mortals (which is why Egyptian pharaohs marry their mothers and sisters. To keep their godly blood “pure”). So, the hastily appoint Akhenaton’s son who is 9 years old as the new pharaoh (and of course the child will have advisors to help him rule until he is an adult… of course.)

Problem. Akhenaton’s son’s name is Tutankhaten. “Living Image of Aten” and that just won’t do. So 2 years into his reign (aged 11) his name is changed to  Tutankhamun, “Living image of Amun”after the sun god Amun or Amun-Ra. The city of Akhenaton is abandoned and falls into ruin.

All is well and Tutankhamun’s kingdom is ruled by his advisors… until he’s about 18 or 19. Whoops! Now he’s an adult and probably wants to start actually doing his job as the ruler of Egypt.

Oh wait no nevermind. he conveniently died. We’re not sure how exactly because, oh… uhm… it seems there are no surviving records of King Tut’s final days! Whoops!

Ok that’s an over simplification. In truth, thanks to many… many… many…. MANY scans and autopsies, we now now Tut broke his knee recently before he died, had a very aggressive strain of malaria which led to a bone disease and also, due to being inbred as FUCK because of how Pharaohs work, also suffered from mild kyphoscoliosis (a curved spine), pes planus (flat feet), hypophalangism of the right foot (missing bone), bone necrosis of the second and third metatarsal bones of the left foot, and a club foot that was so bad he could not stand unless aided by walking sticks. However the exact cause of death is still unknown but it seems direct assassination is unlikely.

But anyway.

So King Tut dies as does the two stillborn children of his and Akhenaton’s family line reaches an end. It did not end well for Tut’s wife either as she disappears from history after a war which left Egypt defeated and her new husband, Ay the new Pharaoh, with a sudden second wife. After Ay’s death a new Pharaoh comes into power by usurping the throne and has a complete and utter “Stricken from history” campaign against all of Tutankhamun’s family, including father, mother, daughters, wife, half sisters, and all other family members.

King Tut is buried in an unusually small tomb most likely due to his sudden death, that became forgotten and buried.

Fast forward 3,245 years to 1915 and his tomb is discovered by Archaeologists. The tomb is one of the most intact and untouched tombs EVER discovered in the history of all Agyptian Pharoahs, and almost single-handedly caused an absolute obsession with Ancient Egyptian culture and kickstarted what we now call “Egyptology”. A fascination which has never truly died even in modern times today.

…..

Anyway Akhenaton wasn’t an alien.

Cool as fuck- and hysterical bc tut is basically the first name that comes to mind when people think of ancient Egypt so haha those priests failed big fucking time.

there’s…………………………………… kind of a lot wrong in this that i’m not going to bother with because i’m a) busy and b) don’t give a shit about the amarna period but the most glaring in error is saying egyptian royalty worked via inbreeding. incest was just as much a taboo, even with royalty, as it is today and intermarrying is limited to two (dynasties) totaly one of which was greek anyway and you know who i’m talking about. it certainly wasn’t going on for “hundreds of years”

Akhenaten’s DAD? Married a completely unrelated (likely foreign given her parents’ names) common woman (uncommon only because she wasn’t some form of Royalty). Said dad’s second minor wife? A FOREIGN princess, also unrelated.

Like. His actual parents weren’t even inbreeding so you can put that “hundreds of years” back in the box and never look at it again.

Since this is my field of expertise (12 years as an Egyptologist and counting) I have to weigh in here. There’s a huge amount wrong here. Like….huge. I admire OPs enthusiasm, but I’m gonna correct some stuff:

1. Akhenaten isn’t a revolutionary. He isn’t a heretic either. These are modern assertions from historians who either admire, or despise him, and should not be reflected back onto the historical record. He did change the religion, but there are a load of caveats on that which I will explain as this post progresses.
2. He did move his capital…eventually. It occurs several years into his reign and the name of the capital is Akhetaten not Akhenaten. It’s an easy mistake, but it’s important to make the distinction. The site of Akhetaten (now known as Amarna) was chosen due to the shape of the mountain range, which was in the shape of part of the hieroglyphic sign Axt ‘horizon’ and allowed the sun to rise between the two mountains thus perfectly replicating the sign. A huge honour for Akhenaten to bestow on his chosen god.
3. Did not establish a new religion. The Aten, literally a deification of the sun disk on Ra’s head (no really), was already part of the Egyptian pantheon, and was worshipped before this point as part of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III’s reigns. Repeat after me: Worship of the Aten was not unusual. As for the other gods, well yes he did have the major temples closed (mainly to Amun the current chief god), and declared that no one was to worship the rest of the pantheon. HOWEVER, there is no evidence that Akhenaten was ever able to stop the continued worship of other gods outside of his new Capital. He mostly ignored affairs of state in favour of being in his new temple and let the country and foreign affairs go to ruin. 
4. The religion change was down to the rise in the power of the High Priests of Amun. Originally the chief of the Egyptian pantheon was the goddess Neith, then it was Osiris, and then in the Middle Kingdom it became Amun, and here it pretty much settled. Now priests were fairly powerful in Egypt, being that they were the ones looking after the gods on a day to day basis. With Amun being the chief god, his priests were more powerful and higher in society. Over time, and with a series of weak rulers, the priests began to gain more power. This was noted under the reign of Akhenaten’s grandfather Thutmosis IV, and he started gravitating towards the Aten as a new chief god. But slowly so as not to ruffle any feathers too soon. It continued under Amenhotep III, and then into Akhenaten’s reign. If Akhenaten saw these priests as a threat (and trust me they are…they end up bringing down the civilisation eventually) then closing the temples to Amun and moving the power centre away from Thebes (the capital city) would remove their power to harm him. 95% of all defacing of gods was done to Amun. He’s got a beef with him and for good reason.
5. He did not rework Egyptian art. Egyptian art is not as static as NatGeo and every other documentary would have you believe. True his is more drastic, but plenty of Pharaoh’s made changes to art to more reflect their personal style. Take Senwosret I, and his ‘sad’ statues. He’s depicted as morose, with large ears to reflect him being aware of the plight of his people. We categorically cannot say that his art more accurately reflects real life, as it is disingenuous. We’ve no proof that he had any sort of medical condition or deformity that would cause this change. The art of his time is certainly more fluid, and reflective of a loving family life, and reflects his devotion to the Aten, but that’s all we can say.
6. ‘Akhenaton was not traditionally handsome (probably thanks to hundreds of years of inbreeding thanks to how Ancient Egyptian royalty worked)’ Oh…no. The nearest case of incest prior to Akhenaten was 200 years before his birth (Amenhotep I in fact). It’s not as common as media would have you believe. The Ptolemies were very incestous, but not so much in Egyptian royal families. It did occur, but it’s not ‘every’ marriage and is more often than not uncle/niece (and not always a blood uncle) rather than brother/sister. 
   
7. Yes it did piss off a lot of High Priests for the reasons I’ve outlined above. Moving the capital did not cripple the religious centre of Egypt. Where the capital was and where the religious centre was were in different places for a lot of Egyptian history. Memphis was both religious centre and capital at one point before the move to Thebes, and Memphis still remained a religious centre after this. During Ramesses II’s reign he moved the capital to Pi Ramesses, and this did not cripple any religious centre. They’re not intrinsically tied. What messed up Thebes was Akhenaten’s closing of the temples to Amun. 
   
8. Also a King (not Pharaoh until Akhenaten’s reign when the word pr-aA is first used in that context) is not a living god on Earth by this point in Egyptian history. This is true in the Old Kingdom, but after the Old Kingdom it dies off and what’s left is a belief that the King is chosen by the gods, but is not themselves a god.
9. It’s true that we don’t know how Akhenaten died, and therefore to suggest that it has something to do with a medical condition is misleading. The period between the end of his reign and the start of Tutankhamun’s is messy as hell. We simply do not know what happened, or how he died. As for priests and historians striking his name from the record, well, here’s where it gets fun: there are a couple of rulers between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun (Smenkhare is one). Once Tutankhamun takes the throne, the chief god is reinstated as Amun and the capital is once again Thebes. This is pretty much all that happens during his reign in that regard. The destruction of monuments, and defacing of images of Akhenaten doesn’t occur until the reign of Horemheb…which is about 13-15 years after Akhenaten’s death. Horemheb destroys Akhetaten (using it as infill in other monuments) and hacks out the name and image of Akhenaten to deny him an afterlife (no name or image means you’ll never get into the afterlife. They’re important). Subsequently, when a Kings List of Pharaoh’s is made during the reign of Seti I, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun are omitted, as they have basically been forgotten from the record. 
   
10. There are only two king lists written after Akhenaten’s death: Seti I’s and Mantheo’s. In Seti’s he is deliberately omitted, and in Mantheo’s he’s actually been forgotten by history. Nowhere is he ever referred to as ‘the enemy’ or ‘the criminal’ as in Egyptian culture this would also require writing his name (i.e. the great criminal Akhenaten) which..would go against the ‘removing his name to deny him an afterlife’ deal. There are also no ‘archives’ of Egyptian history. There is no proof that his mummy and coffin were deliberately damaged. His mummy was moved from his tomb after Horemheb’s destruction of Akhenaten, and was moved to the Valley of the Kings (yes, even though they didn’t like him he was still honoured as King). Damage could easily have occurred during this move that wasn’t deliberate. Also we’re not sure that the KV55 mummy is his. Hawass claims that the mummy is 35 years old, but every previous test on the mummy indicated early 20s. This mummy IS the father of Tutankhamun and son of Amenhotep III, just as the Younger Lady is his mother and also the sister of the KV55 mummy, but we’ve no proof that it’s actually Akhenaten. Amenhotep III had more than one son afterall. Basically, every year there are multiple articles published that argue a variety of things, but Hawass insists he’s right…with tenuous evidence.
    
11. Nefertiti isn’t called the most beautiful woman in history. I think Helen of Troy wins that, and Helen needs to be left alone. 
12. Nefertiti’s bust is unfinished limestone.
13. It’s unfinished because the city was abandoned, not because she died. We’ve actually no idea when she died. 
14. Now on to ‘the problem of appointing a new Pharaoh’…it’s not an issue. You just appoint the next in line, and Pharaoh’s are not descended from gods. They can marry commoners, and have children with them. Akhenaten’s own father Amenhotep III married Tiye who in Egyptian terms was a commoner. There’s no ‘keeping the blood pure’. Incest relations only happened to secure power, not because outsiders had ‘bad blood’.
15. As I said before, there are two rulers between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, those being Smenkhare and Neferneferuaten. Tutankhamun isn’t even the first choice of Pharaoh. 
16. Here’s where OP does get something right; Tutankhamun does come to the throne aged nine. This is where getting it right ends.
17. Tutankhamun changes his name from Tutankhaten in year one of his reign, about 6 months in. We have the Restoration Stele that tells us this. 
18. Already mentioned Horemheb destroys Akhetaten so I won’t retread ground here.
19. Tutankhamun is governed by his advisors, because the Egyptians in their infinite wisdom will not let a 9 year old make foreign policy decisions. They’re not dumb. Though from 14 he was making policy decsions
20. Of course all these advisors are the ones cast aside previously by Akhenaten. They’ve not got his best interests at heart, and can easily manipulate him. These are the High Priests of Amun. Yes, hello, they’re back and more thirsty for power than ever.
21. I’m gonna level with you all. There are no surviving records from the end of any Pharaoh’s reign. Tutankhamun isn’t special in this. 
22. He doesn’t ‘conveniently die’ either. 
23. I hate hate hate that documentary by the guy who says he has a club foot, and an overbite, and wide hips and….oh my god. Fuck that documentary so hard. The guy only ever looked at pictures of the body, not the body itself. The ‘hips’ thing is literally just applying Amarna art to the body. Tutankhamun’s hips are normal. He doesn’t have a severe overbite (he does have one it’s just a genetic trait…all his family have it), or severe cleft palette (he does have a very small one which he would never have noticed), his mummy is just poorly made. His feet are slightly clubbed, but not enough to severely impact him. He had a lot of walking sticks, but only one shows signs of use. Multiple indicates that they were preparing for him to use them in the afterlife. It’s only hypothesised that he needed the sticks to walk all the time. It could very well be that he needed the stick after the injury to his knee.
24. No seriously, OP why did you mention assassination and then list all the stuff from that documentary??? What was the point??? It’s disingenuous and muddies the narrative.
25. Fuck I hate that documentary so much. We laughed in the pub after it came out and basically ripped it to shreds.
26. Tutankhamun died of an infection (likely sepsis or malaria) after a fall in which he severely injured his knee. No foul play. 
27. Tutankhamun does have two stillborn daughters. 
28. Ankhsenamun marries Ay who is possibly her great Uncle. Then she also disappears from the record. We don’t know why she does. She might have died, or have been killed. 
29. After Ay we have Horemheb. He’s not an usurper. He was supposed to be Pharaoh after Tutankhamun, but was put aside by Ay because Horemheb was on a military campaign at the time, and then Ay named his son Nakhtmin as successor. Horemheb always had the title of iry-pAt or ‘hereditary prince’ and was a backup in case Tutankhamun died without issue. This unfortunately happened. If anything after all of this Ay is actually the usurper.
30. Tutankhamun’s tomb was probably unfinished rather than being small. They only had 9 years and seemed to have to rush to finish it…indicating that it was known he was dying so they began the rush. 
31. Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922, not 1915. That’s a very easy fact to check.
32. It’s the only intact tomb of a King ever to be discovered, though it is not the only intact tomb ever in Egypt
33. Yes, the 1922 discovery kicked of Egyptomania and the world has never truly recovered.
34. You’re right Akhenaten wasn’t an alien.    

So I know OP was very excited, and very willing to defend Akhenaten, but unfortunately the information is almost entirely wrong.

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