Word: akhnaton
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...Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
Distended Stomach. Moreover, there were innovators such as King Akhnaton, who came to the throne about 1370 B.C. He demanded that his trembling sculptors carve him as he really looked: "Elongated head, gaunt face, slender limbs, distended stomach-no detail of this kind was spared ... On the contrary everything that was wrong from that aesthetic point of view was exaggerated, just like those modern works which strike the imagination while shocking established opinion...
Died. Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 53, British Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Akhnaton (famed liberal ruler and religion remodeler), novelist, biographer, member of the Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb-opening party in Luxor; after a long illness which his friends said was "mysterious"; in London. Revived were stories of the Pharaoh curse which the superstitious hold responsible for the deaths of 20 members of the Luxor party, and to which Weigall himself was supposed to have given some credence...
...Three mummies were found in the vicinity of the tomb of Ramose, vizier of Akhnaton (Amenophis IV), the great king of the 18th Dynasty who attempted to change the religion of Egypt to monotheism. The discovery was made by Dr. Robert Mond, English archeologist, in the region called Sheikh-Abd-el-Qurna, in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the mummies, excellently preserved, were the bodies of a goldsmith and a priestess, his wife. The woman's clothing was wrapped with the body and was found to be practically identical with that worn by the Fellaheen women today...