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Daniel C. Peterson teaches in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and is co-director of research for BYU's Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts.

Photo of William J. Hamblin atop the ruins of the huge eighth century Buddhist stupa at Balgas, near Karakorum, Mongolia.

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Islamic Belief in the Afterlife
Islamic folklore features legends, doctrines, and suppositions regarding the greatest of human mysteries - life after death.
By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040308afterlife.html

Teotihuacán: City of the Birth of the Gods
Twenty-five miles northeast of Mexico City lay one of the greatest archaeological sites of the New World, the fabled Teotihuacán.
By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040301city.html

The Sibylline Oracles of Ancient Rome
There was a legend in ancient Rome about a set of nine books which contained a predestined history of the Roman people; the Sibylline Oracles are some of these prophecies.
By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040209rome.html

Ziggurats: Temple Platforms of Ancient Mesopotamia
Could the Tower of Bable have been a ziggurat? Symbolically the ziggurat represents the cosmic mountain on which the gods dwell.
By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/040112zuggurats.html

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I remember from Ancient History class, way back in my freshman year at good ol' Judson College, that Akhenaten was indeed a very different pharaoh. In carvings done of him, he had a long sloped forehead and nose and a very pear shaped body for a man. He must have been seen as a real oddball --or maybe "divine."

http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cat=pics&cmd=process_search&language=english&query=Akhenaten (click "search" if images don't appear)

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Read a book a few years ago by Bob Brier. He is a paleopathologist. His book 'The Murder of Tutankhamen' goes quite a bit into Akenaten.

Its quite possible that Akenaten, who was physically deformed, may have rejected the traditional Egyptian pantheon of gods because of his malformity. Heand his family suffered from Marfan syndrome. Anyway, he may decided to leave Thebes and go to Amarna and start up his own religion with his own god, having felt betrayed by the pantheon of multiple gods of Egypt at the time.

You have to remember that at these times the Pharaoh's were depicted in perfect health with no blemishes.

Any way it was a good book and the author being an Egyptologist has done several shows for the Discovery channel. I believe that he determined that Smenkare was Tutankhamen's brother, not Akenathen's.

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Why are you interested in monotheism? Exploring alternatives to your current religion?

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