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Elizabeth Burton

@elizabethburton

BA Art History, MA Preventive Conservation

Member since Apr 15, 2020

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Elizabeth is a practicing paintings and preventive conservator from Los Angeles. She studied Art History at UCLA as an undergraduate and received her MA in Preventive Conservation from Northumbria University. Elizabeth has worked with many museums in California and currently teaches for the Northern States Conservation Center, through which she offers online courses for heritage preservation professionals.

Relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Two Daughters Adoring the Aten, 1372-1350 BCE

Akhenaten: The Forgotten Pioneer of Atenism and Monotheism

Intentionally erased from history until the 19th century, Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten established the first known monotheistic religion called Atenism, which was rediscovered in the late 18th century and integrated by 19th and 20th century religious philosophers into the histories of the three Abrahamic religions.

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