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Years before the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the world discovered the pharaoh believed to have been his father, Akinatan, formerly Aminhotep 4th. In the late 19th century, his capital city, Akhetaten, was discovered, and his tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1907. What we learned about this previously unknown Pharaoh was

extraordinarily interesting. He has been called the quote-unquote heretic pharaoh because he rejected the gods of his

forebears and instituted widespread religious reform.

He founded his new capital city on the worship of Aten, an aspect of the sun god.

One journalist with an interest in Egyptology, Arthur Weigal, wrote a book about

Akinaten, The Life and Times of Aknaten in 1910. Wigal saw Akhenaten's religious reforms as a parallel

to the development of Christianity, since he was leading the pagan Egyptians toward monotheism.

To get a sense of how credible Weigal's writing was, and how he leaned toward the sensational,

we need only recognize that Weigal was present at the tomb of King Tut, more than a decade

later, writing about the discovery. And upon the death of the

Earl of Carnarvan, he seems to have started the curse of the Pharaoh's rumor, claiming he'd

heard Carnarvan joking around before entering the tomb and saying, he predicted that, quote,

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