A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna stelae like this were erected as shrines in elite residences.

Nefertiti and her husband were behind a religious revolution. Previously, Egyptians had worshipped more than one god, but the pair made their subjects venerate just one — the sun disc Aten.

Nefertiti's legacy, rooted in ancient Egyptian ... abandoning polytheism in favor of the worship of the sun god Aten. Her name means "the beautiful one has come," a fitting description as her ...

Barrie Kosky's new production of Philip Glass' Akhnaten for Komische Oper at the Schillertheater removes any egyptological ...