61: From the book: STORY OF THE GREATEST LIES 6 There is a theory according to which the faith of the One God was first proclaimed by the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, the husband of Nefertiti, also known under the new name of Akhenaten. He proclaimed Aton, the sun god, as one god and abolished faith in other gods. Akhenaten founded a new capital, calling it Akhet-Aton. It is clear that the priests, who had lost their power and power, hated Akhenaten and waited for an opportunity to overthrow the reformer pharaoh. After a short reign, Akhenaten was overthrown. All monuments to him were destroyed and his name was erased from everywhere. The new religion of belief in a single god was banned. His young son Tutankhamun ordered the capital of the state to be returned to the city of Thebes. Among other theories of the appearance of Jews in Canaan, the theory of the Hyksos tribes is curious. Two centuries before the reign of Akhenaten, the warlike Semitic tribes of the Hyksos conquered the Egyptian throne. After two hundred years of reign, they were expelled from Egypt. There is a version that the descendants of the Hyksos could be the people who returned from Egypt and led by Moses (a possible follower of Akhenaten's ideas about monotheism). Whether the exodus of the Jews from Egypt took place or all the miracles associated with this circumstance are a myth, but this is what gave the compilers of the Babylonian Talmud a reason to establish the starting point of the countdown and the place where the beginning of Judaism as a religion, and the Jews as a nation, took place. The Tablets of the Covenant were given to the Jews on Mount Sinai and all that remained was to follow these covenants.