Luke Caverns

During the Amarna period, you have this pharaoh who is formally born Amenhotep IV, changes his name to Akhenaten. You've probably heard of this guy before. He basically just cuts the legs out from under the Theban priests and just levels all of the priesthood and makes himself the high priest of the one true sun god. He's a conehead, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

During the Amarna period, you have this pharaoh who is formally born Amenhotep IV, changes his name to Akhenaten. You've probably heard of this guy before. He basically just cuts the legs out from under the Theban priests and just levels all of the priesthood and makes himself the high priest of the one true sun god. He's a conehead, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

During the Amarna period, you have this pharaoh who is formally born Amenhotep IV, changes his name to Akhenaten. You've probably heard of this guy before. He basically just cuts the legs out from under the Theban priests and just levels all of the priesthood and makes himself the high priest of the one true sun god. He's a conehead, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the way he's depicted in statues and everything. And his family members as well, they have the elongated skulls.

Yeah, the way he's depicted in statues and everything. And his family members as well, they have the elongated skulls.

Yeah, the way he's depicted in statues and everything. And his family members as well, they have the elongated skulls.

Elongated skull guy.

Elongated skull guy.

Elongated skull guy.

Hopefully there's no Coneheads watching that are offensive. Right, right. But, you know, so during this time, there's like an artistic liberation happening. Now, it's only, you know, it's noticeable, but it's not like the artwork completely changes. But there are palatial floors that have these designs, which as far as we know, are completely foreign to the rest of Egyptian history.

Hopefully there's no Coneheads watching that are offensive. Right, right. But, you know, so during this time, there's like an artistic liberation happening. Now, it's only, you know, it's noticeable, but it's not like the artwork completely changes. But there are palatial floors that have these designs, which as far as we know, are completely foreign to the rest of Egyptian history.

Hopefully there's no Coneheads watching that are offensive. Right, right. But, you know, so during this time, there's like an artistic liberation happening. Now, it's only, you know, it's noticeable, but it's not like the artwork completely changes. But there are palatial floors that have these designs, which as far as we know, are completely foreign to the rest of Egyptian history.

And the Egyptologist that I was with when we were in the Cairo Museum, there's an Amarna period. Amarna period is Akhenaten's little kingdom that he establishes when he changes the whole Egyptian world and flips it on his head to worship the Aten. That's the Amarna period. And we call that because he moves the capital of Egypt from the...

And the Egyptologist that I was with when we were in the Cairo Museum, there's an Amarna period. Amarna period is Akhenaten's little kingdom that he establishes when he changes the whole Egyptian world and flips it on his head to worship the Aten. That's the Amarna period. And we call that because he moves the capital of Egypt from the...

And the Egyptologist that I was with when we were in the Cairo Museum, there's an Amarna period. Amarna period is Akhenaten's little kingdom that he establishes when he changes the whole Egyptian world and flips it on his head to worship the Aten. That's the Amarna period. And we call that because he moves the capital of Egypt from the...

the economic capital from Memphis and the religious capital from Thebes or Luxor to a place called Tell el-Amarna, which is, it's the modern name for it, but we just call it the Amarna period. One of his palace floors or one of his palatial floors is this completely foreign art style. And the Egyptologists that I were with, they were like, this is Minoan artwork. And there's this...

the economic capital from Memphis and the religious capital from Thebes or Luxor to a place called Tell el-Amarna, which is, it's the modern name for it, but we just call it the Amarna period. One of his palace floors or one of his palatial floors is this completely foreign art style. And the Egyptologists that I were with, they were like, this is Minoan artwork. And there's this...

the economic capital from Memphis and the religious capital from Thebes or Luxor to a place called Tell el-Amarna, which is, it's the modern name for it, but we just call it the Amarna period. One of his palace floors or one of his palatial floors is this completely foreign art style. And the Egyptologists that I were with, they were like, this is Minoan artwork. And there's this...

I was surprised to hear it. There's this commonly held idea, which I can't find anywhere online, but all the Egyptologists I spoke with in Egypt agreed that during Akhenaten's reign, maybe even before it, there were Minoan artists that were being pulled into Egypt. to create art pieces. And maybe they were doing other things as well.

I was surprised to hear it. There's this commonly held idea, which I can't find anywhere online, but all the Egyptologists I spoke with in Egypt agreed that during Akhenaten's reign, maybe even before it, there were Minoan artists that were being pulled into Egypt. to create art pieces. And maybe they were doing other things as well.