Billy Carson: "This mirrors Pharaoh Akhenaten’s push for monotheism in Egypt, where he defaced other gods’ images to promote worship of the sun disk, Aten.
They propose an Aten-type asteroid, a class with an orbit close to Earth's, more than a kilometre across.
He set up the cult of the Sun-god Aten (or Aton) in opposition to the priesthood of Amon-Ra, and was certainly considered heretical by later Pharaohs.
Monotheism: Some scholars draw parallels between Moses and Pharaoh Akhenaten, who promoted the worship of a single deity, Aten, and attempted to shift Egyptian religion towards monotheism.
Akhenaten initiated a religious revolution in ancient Egypt, focusing on the worship of the sun god Aten.
He is notable for his religious reforms, particularly his attempt to transition Egypt from polytheism to the worship of a single god, the Aten, represented as the sun disc.
Although some believe the religion he introduced was mostly monotheistic, many others see Akhenaten as a practitioner of an Aten monolatry, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods; he simply refrained from worshiping any but the Aten.