| "KonaBody"> | | | | and it was this dramatic change that gave this |
| When Akhenaten began his reign as Pharaoh of | | | | famous individual the name of 'the rebel king'. |
| Egypt, his administrative centre and his | | | | Akhenaten's city was named Akhetaten, which is |
| government were based in the city Memphis is | | | | thought to mean 'the horizon of the Aten'. It was |
| the north of the country - whereas his religious | | | | based on the eastern shore of the Nile virtually |
| centre was at Thebes in the south. This is how | | | | equidistant from Memphis and Thebes, in the area |
| things had been throughout the 18th Dynasty up | | | | called Tel-el-Amarna. Building began at the end of |
| until Akhenaten took power. | | | | Akhenaten's fourth year in power, and the |
| However, within four years of Akhenaten | | | | proposed boundaries were marked with three |
| becoming Pharaoh, he had started work on a | | | | commemorative stelae that were clearly inscribed |
| virgin city that was to become the centre for | | | | with Akhenaten's original birth name Amenophis |
| both his government and his alternative religion, | | | | IV. |