During the next dynasty, Akhenaten was referred to as “the criminal” and “the rebel,” and pharaohs destroyed his statues and images, trying to remove him from history entirely. Opinion ...

The pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, who assumed the throne ... a pair of six-foot wooden guardian statues once covered in gold foil, and some statuettes of underworld deities.

Pharaohs were the kings of Ancient ... The people were very unhappy with this change and, after Akhenaten's death, destroyed many of his statues and monuments. Child: Tutankhamun, ruler of Egypt ...

From the side, the damage to the original statue is even more ... exalted by the pharaoh. The work is thought to date from ...

Some of his statues have breasts ... co-ruler of Egypt under the reign of the monotheistic heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten. A 3000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun. Picture: HO/various sources ...