The facts on Akhenaton found in temples and shrines indicate that the pharaoh did not stop with changing his name and moving the capital. He publicly declared Aten to be the only god. His only exception to own rule appears to have been in regards to the god Re. Akhenaton then went on to claim he was the only human being who could commune with Aten. He subsequently outlawed the worship of Amon, sealed the temples that had been dedicated by other ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the worship of Aten and barred the priests. Nothing seemed to be safe from the pharaoh's destruction if it had a reference to Amon on it, including his own father's cartouches. Akhenaton's actions earned him no favor with the Egyptian people. Following his death, references to the king were demolished; much as he had demolished earlier references to Amon. Unlike most ancient Egyptian pharaohs, the people of Egypt seemed to be determined to erase the memory of the ruler who had tried to force his own brand of religion
There has been much speculation that Moses' written laws and Akhenaton's monotheism were one and the same, or at the very least inspired by the pharaoh's take on a monotheistic religion. Some people have even gone so far as to speculate that Moses was Akenaten and ruled Egypt before becoming exiled to the desert.