Events and trends

• c. 1348 BC Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten.
• 1348 BC 1336 BC: Akhenaten and his family, relief from Akhetaten (modern el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, gyptisches Museum.
• c. 1348 BC 1336 BC: Nefertiti, bust from Akhetaten (modern Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, gyptisches Museum.
• c. 1348 BC 1336 BC: Tish-shaped vase, from Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in the British Museum, London.
• c. 1348 BC 1327 BC: State ship, detail of a tempera fascimile by Charles K. Wilkinson of a cow painting in the tomb of the governor of Nubia Amenhotep Huy in Qurnet Murai was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• 1347 BC Legendary King Erechtheus II is reportedly killed by lightning after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his younger brother Cecrops II.
• 1346 BC Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt begins his Cult of Aten and begins construction of Amarna intended to be his new capital. *1345 BC Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt renames himself to Akhenaten.
• 1343 BC-Pharaoh King Tut (Tutankhamun) is born.
• c. 1340 BC Citadel walls are built in Mycenae.

Significant people

• 1341 BC Birth of Tutankhaten, later Pharaoh of Egypt as Tutankhamun (approximate date)

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