
First Beliefs
Before Moses. Before Muhammad. There Was Akhenaten.
<p></p><p>There is a name that was scratched off temple walls, chiseled out of stone, erased from records, removed from the official list of kings. His name was Akhenaten β and roughly 3,300 years ago, in the heart of ancient Egypt, he declared that all the gods were false except one. Then he tried to delete the rest.</p><p>What he set in motion would ripple through centuries, touching the Hebrew Bible, the rise of Islam, and the birth of every major monotheistic tradition alive today. Some historians believe he planted the first seed of belief in one God th...

