Curse of the Serpent

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The Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from 1370 to 1353 BC, was Egypt's strangest king. He gave up the old Egyptian religion, which had many gods, and commanded that only the sun's disc, Aten, should be worshiped. In Thebes, the capital of Egypt, the chief god was Amun. So in 1366 BC, Akhenaten decided to build a new capital dedicated only to the sun-god. It was called Akhet-Aten, meaning "horizon of the sun".He was a strange and ugly man but he had a beautiful queen, Nefertiti, and six daughters.