Tag: Akhenaten
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Pharaohs of the Sun
from NationalGeographic.com: On a morning in the year 1353 B.C. a young pharaoh of Egypt rose before dawn to greet the sun with a poem he loved and perhaps had written: “Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven,” he prayed as sunlight began to flood Egypt’s capital city of Thebes. To him the rays…