while most historians say this period is monotheistic, some researchers do not. they say that people worshipped the royal family as gods who got their divine power from the aten. in one picture, akhenaten is shown with his wife nefertiti with three of their 6 daughters sitting under the beams of the aten. this point of view is mostly ignored by the historians. some researchers say that akhenaten or some of his viziers were moses or joseph (bible) from the bible.