ife display scenes of female musicians and dancers and elaborate banquets.
             Another important element to Egyptian life in the 18th Dynasty was religion. P polytheistic religious tradition was Egypt's main belief system. The city of Thebes worshiped Amun as the god of gods. This pantheon of gods came to an end during Amenhotep IV's reign as pharaoh. Nefertiti married Amenhotep IV and became Queen. Sometime during his reign Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten. He cut all royal ties with the worship of Amun, the Amun cult and the Amun priests. He worshiped Aten, a sun disc god, as the one and only god. He was considered to be the heretic pharaoh because he demanded a monotheistic religion to that of Egypt's traditional polytheism.
             Why did Akhenaten change his name? Why did he abandon the polytheistic tradition in favor of a monotheistic worship of one god? Some speculate that these act either rose from religious fervor, w
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