1370s BC

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**Years 1370 BC**

The years 1370 BC cover the period from 1379 BC to 1370 BC.

### Events

Around 1380-1336: Reign of Supiluliuma, king of the Hittites. During his first twelve years on the throne, he restored the empire's situation, which had deteriorated during the reign of Tudhaliya II. He imposed his authority on the king of Arzawa, subdued the land of Azzi (Eastern Anatolia), and failed to defeat the Gasgas, barbarians of the Pont mountains.

1379-1362: Reign of Akhenaton. Amenophis IV, son of Amenophis III and Tiy, ascended to the throne at the age of 15. He took the name of Akhenaton (the servant of the solar disk) in his fourth year of reign. As a mystical and autocratic pharaoh, he abolished the cult of Amon, replacing it with that of Aton (the solar disk). He abandoned Thebes to found a new capital, Akhetaton ("I-Horizon d'Aton"), built five years north of Thebes.

Meryrê was appointed high priest of Aton and intendant; Ramose, then Nakht, vizirs; Any, royal scribe and intendant; May, intendant and chief of all works. In 1887, the archives of the Chancellery of Akhenaton and his father were discovered in Akhet-Aton, written in Akkadian, which cover a period from the early 1930s to the end of Akhenaton's reign.

1375-1347: Reign of Burnaburiash II, the Kassite king of Babylon.

Around 1375-1370 (or around 1200): Destruction of the palace of Cnossos in Crete. The tremblement of land and raid by the Lukka or victory of the continental Greeks led to the collapse of the Cretan civilization. Crete became part of the Mycenean world, and the production of palatial art ceased. Although the Minoan religion remained, the names of deities delivered by texts testify to a complex Creto-Mycenian syncretism.

1370: Burial of the oak coffin of the daughter of Egtved, belonging to the Danish Bronze Age.

### Religion

The cult of Aton inaugurated intolerant monotheism. Akhenaton affirmed the providential goodness of the sun as the source of life. Every element of creation was considered good in essence, and dysfunctions and evil were no longer taken into account. As Aton, the god revealed himself in his entirety, without any hidden aspect (Amon, the hidden, was the hidden part of Amon-Rê). His will was revealed only to the king, his son, an interpreter of the god, whose power could not be contested.

The religious "reform" (abandonment of the past and destruction of names and images of Amon and other gods) seemed to have failed to achieve its goal of a new religious reform.