Between the years IV and VI of his reign, at a date that is difficult to pinpoint precisely but which is in the middle of the fourteenth century B.C., Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten. He changed his name because he changed god. And since he worshiped another, the king also founded a new capital in a desert place of Middle Egypt, Akhetaten – holy city and palace city, today Tell el-Amarna – a city that embodied this radical change in Ancient Egyptian continuity to the core