Born in 1341 B.C.E, King Tutankhaton ruled over Egypt, perhaps the most advanced civilizations of his time. He was crowned the 12th king of the the 18th Egyptian dynasty, after his fathers death. The best known pharaoh King Tutankhaton ruled over Egypt for perhaps only nine years, but during his nine years of power he made drastic changes in the Egyptian culture. Years before Tutankhaton had taken over Egypt, his father ruled over the kingdom. Tutankhaton’s father was a very selfish man who attempted to remove all power from the priests by turning Egypt into a monotheistic society, that worshipped only one god. In doing so his attempt failed and threw his society into chaos. He ruled for 16 more years till his nine year old son took over. …show more content…
Later Tunkhaton changed his name to Tutankhamun, which meant the living image of Amun. From then on King Tutankhamen was no longer know as King Tunkhaton, the living image of Aten.
(Aten was the Egyptian god Egyptians were forced to worship during King Tutankhamun’s father’s time as King)
King Tutankhamun (Also known as King Tut) in order to bring peace to the 16 years of chaos, he made many changes in order to restore Egypt back to normal. Tut first began by restoring peace and tranquility with the gods. For his first order of business, Tut ordered all holy sites to be repaired followed by the construction of the temple of Tarnak. Later in order to restore peace with the foreign kingdom of Soleb he ordered their red granite lions to be