3,350 years ago, a monotheistic pharaoh and his wife ruled ancient Egypt. It was the 18th dynasty. They worshipped the sun's disk until they were overthrown and forever banished from Egyptian thought and culture. Akhenaten has been called a Jesus precursor, a heretic king, a spiritual revolutionary, a hermaphrodite, the world's first monotheist, an enigmatic lost soul, a despotic tyrant, a wildly mysterious pharaoh, the greatest idealist the world has ever known, a sufferer of Marfan's disease, and the first true individual in history. Conversely, Nefertiti was named the most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was at least as intelligent as her husband and became pharaoh for a short time on her own.
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