The Egyptian king Tutankhamun
during the New Kingdom (a period of time considered the second golden age in ancient Egyptian history).
Inheriting the throne at the age of nine or ten, Tutankhamun faced a similar situation to that of Elizabeth I when she assumed the English throne from her sister Mary I over a thousand years later.
His father, Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV), had sent the nation into upheaval, rejecting the multi-god practices that had defined Egypt since its inception in favor of a single deity.
Tutankhamun became pharaoh in 1333 BCE he started dismantling the efforts of his father – he abolished the single worship of the god Aten and re-elevated the god Amen to prominence.
The stranglehold on the priesthood of Amen was lifted and the capital was moved back to Thebes.
Some attribute the almost overzealous manner in which King Tut reversed his father’s reformation with one of his royal advisors/viziers, Horemheb, but whether the driving force was Tutankhamun’s alone or in conjunction with his court, he still made every effort to effectively expunge his father’s reign from history.
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