2006-10-23 20:09:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Akhenaten were father and son.
Akhentaten was born Amunhotep IV, he was the son of Amunhotep III. Upon becoming the Pharoah he adopted the name Akhenaten as he restricted worship to only the sun god Aten as he believed the preists of Amun had become to corrupt with power. He moved the capital to Akhetaten meaning "horizon of the Aten" known today as El Amarna. He didn't use the cult of worship of the Aten as a way of worship for him and his family he just included his face and his family on the reliefs showing them worshiping the Aten. He was to become known as the heretic pharoah, and scholars now believe him to have been the first ruler in history to have a montheistic religion.
Tutankamun had the name Tutankaten from birth and upon becoming Pharoah he adopted the name Tutankamun as he shifted worship back to the cult of Amun and the capital back to Thebes modern day Luxor. He never made it into his adulthood and it is unknown as to wheather he died of natural causes or if he was murdered. His name was left off the official kings list at Abydos as he was believed to be too closely linked to Akhenaten.
His sudden death required him to be interred in a smaller tomb than he would have had if he had died at a normal age. The fact that this tomb was so small and so close to the next tomb was the reason it remained hidden for so long and the reason it has yeiled the most facinating finds that the ancient egyptian world has to offer.
so on a whole i wouldn't say that they had similar lives they were just products of the situation in Egypt at the time.
Hope this helped
Ste
2006-10-25 09:58:09 · answer #1 · answered by Ste 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Akhenaten decided to move the center of power to a new group of city structures that he had constructed and delegated. He was essentially a dictator. He also changed the way in which the local common religion was practiced by making himself and his family the center of worship, to the eventual extent of causing people to bow down to him continuously. After his death his images were destroyed and defaced by the citizens and a wave of rebellion was unleashed. They believed that if they could not destroy him while alive, they could destroy his afterlife by defacing his image. Tutankhamun was more moderate, and as a grandson he enjoyed some political separation. He used this to his advantage by restoring the former gods of Egypt and restoring the traditional way of life, and he was rewarded by the most lavish tomb of any discovered pharoh to date. Their similarities were limited to their relationship as relatives, and by the fact that they both used pagan gods to rule. Akhenaten was a cult of personality, Tutankhamun was a shrewd analyst of public opinion.
2006-10-24 03:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by vicfta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aside from the similarities in their general lifestyle as Pharaoh of 18th dynasty of Egypt I don't think they lived similar lives at all.
Akhenaten made many sweeping changes to the state, the church and the political system of Egypt. He lived into old age and had a long and happy marriage.
Tutankhamen died before he was a full adult and did not re-instate any of Akhenaten's theistic changes.
They were not similar in their attitudes or lives at all.
2006-10-24 03:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The living pharoh was an Osiris, a true god, and was worshipped as such. But the priests of Aman Rha had developed so much power over the Pharoh, that Akhenaten destroyed them by creating a new monotheistic religion in the Worship of Aten, the sun disc. He moved the capital (can't remember name) He and his wife, Nephertiti, disported themselves unlike gods, and that undermined respect. The priests of Aman Rha and military figures ploted against him and probably poisoned him. Tut was his son in law. Akhenaten had married his sisters as did most pharohs, and so his children look exactly like him. There were evidently only daughters. Akhenate looks very efeminate in his potraits. Art moved to a greater naturalism during the rule, but he is made to look pregnant. Tut was only around 19, and they soon killed him as well, and a general eventually took the throne.
2006-10-24 20:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by john s 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
* these two are father and son
* both were known by another name at birth
* little is known about both of them in comparison to other
Pharaohs because of their negative impact on Egyptian
society at that time
* Akhenaten's daughter, Ankhesenpaaten, married Tut,
and both fathered children to her.
* Ay was te like father of Akhenaten's wife, and later
married Tuts wife
Akhenaten became a heretic, worshipping a single god (the sun god) rather than traditional multiple Egyptian gods. Alienating many citizens, causing his name to be removed from many records and tarnishing those of his children. Tut reversed this back to traditional worship and ruling as soon as he became king.
2006-10-24 04:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by miz Destiny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only in the fact that they were the top of the hierarchy but as one was a Pharaoh and the other a soldier the similarities end their
2006-10-24 03:43:24 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
2006-10-24 17:19:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They shared the same bloodline.
2006-10-24 05:26:05 · answer #8 · answered by Andrea P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, yes there are
2006-10-24 03:12:27 · answer #9 · answered by dec g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so !!
2006-10-24 03:11:17 · answer #10 · answered by IloveMarmite 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋