Editing Damnatio memoriae (section)

=== Ancient Egypt ===
[[File:KV55 sarcophagus (Cairo Museum).jpg|thumb|upright|Coffin believed to belong to [[Akhenaten]] found in Tomb [[KV55]]. Note the typical obliteration of the face.]]

Egyptians also practiced this,<ref name="Wilkinson 2011">{{Cite journal |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard H. |author-link=Richard H. Wilkinson |date=1 January 2011 |title=Controlled Damage: The Mechanics and Micro-History of the Damnatio Memoriae Carried Out in KV-23, the Tomb of Ay |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jeh/4/1/article-p129_6.xml |journal=Journal of Egyptian History |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=129–147 |doi=10.1163/187416611X580741 |issn=1874-1665}}</ref> as seen in relics from pharaoh [[Akhenaten]]'s tomb and elsewhere. Akhenaten's sole worship of the god [[Aten]], instead of the traditional [[Ancient Egyptian deities|pantheon]], was considered heretical. During his reign, Akhenaten endeavoured to have all references to the god [[Amun]] chipped away and removed.<ref name="Amun">{{Cite web |last=Jarus |first=Owen |date=24 July 2014 |title=Egyptian Carving Defaced by King Tut's Possible Father Discovered |url=https://www.livescience.com/46978-egyptian-carving-discovered.html |access-date=6 January 2021 |website=[[Live Science]]}}</ref> After his reign, temples to Aten were dismantled and the stones reused to create other temples. Images of Akhenaten had their faces chipped away, and images and references to Amun reappeared. The people blamed their misfortunes on Akhenaten's shift of worship to [[Atenism]], away from the gods they served before him.<ref name="Heretic">{{Cite book |last=Redford |first=Donald |author-link=Donald B. Redford |title=Akhenaten: The Heretic King |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-691-03567-3 |pages=170–172}}</ref> Other Egyptian victims of this practice include the pharaohs that immediately succeeded Akhenaten, including [[Smenkhkare]], [[Neferneferuaten]], and [[Ay (pharaoh)|Ay]].<ref name="Wilkinson 2011" /> The campaign of ''damnatio memoriae'' against Akhenaten and his successors was initiated by Ay's successor, [[Horemheb]], who decided to erase from history all pharaohs associated with the unpopular [[Amarna Period]]; this process was continued by Horemheb's successors.<ref name="CarneyMüller2020">{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Elizabeth D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJb-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 |title=The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World |last2=Müller |first2=Sabine |date=9 November 2020 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-429-78398-2 |page=64}}</ref> [[Tutankhamun]] was also erased from history in this way, even though he had restored Egypt to the Amun god, because he was one the kings who succeeded Akhenaten; he may also have been Akhenaten's son.