Akhenaten fathered Tutankhamun, the boy-king who would undo his father's religious revolution and restore the old gods to their temples.
⚠ Tutankhamun's mother remains debated. Candidates include the minor wife Kiya and a sister of Akhenaten identified as KV35YL. DNA evidence confirms Akhenaten's paternity but has not conclusively identified the mother.
Tutankhamun married his half-sister Ankhesenamun, daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Two stillborn daughters were found in their tomb, their tiny mummies placed in nested coffins.
Tutankhamun reversed his father Akhenaten's religious revolution, issuing the Restoration Stela that described how the traditional gods had forsaken Egypt during the Aten's exclusive worship.
Tutankhamun abandoned Akhetaten, his father's purpose-built capital, returning the royal court to Memphis and Thebes. The city was systematically dismantled under his successors.
Tutankhamun's Restoration Stela restored Amun's cult, renewed his priesthood, and refurnished his cult statues with gold and lapis lazuli. The king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun in honor of Amun.
Ay succeeded Tutankhamun as pharaoh and oversaw his burial in the Valley of the Kings. As 'God's Father,' Ay performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony depicted on the tomb walls of KV62.
Horemheb commanded Tutankhamun's armies, then seized the throne after Ay's death and struck Tutankhamun's name from the king lists, claiming credit for the restoration the boy-king had begun.
Tutankhamun's Restoration Stela restored Mut's cult alongside Amun's, reopening her temples at Karnak. The revival of the Theban Triad was central to reversing Akhenaten's religious revolution.
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