Akhenaten: deicidal madman or the first to conceive of a single god?
The 'heretic pharaoh' replaced the Egyptian pantheon with one god and may have inspired the monotheism of the Hebrew tribes
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming next: Buddha, Cicero and the Tao.
FOUR THOUSAND years before the birth of Christ, the Egyptians had conceived of a polytheistic religious system g…
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