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Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertity, make offerings to the Sun-disc (the god Aten), in this 3.5-foot-high alabaster carving from Amarna. For the royal couple, the Sun-disc was the sole, universal, self-created Creator. Thus the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (1352–1336 B.C.E.) is often called “the first monotheist.”