ARCHEOLOGISTS have found the tomb of a high priest of a renegade pharaoh which may help them determine whether his monotheistic-type cult was practiced widely in Egypt. A Dutch-Egyptian team excavating in Saqqara, just south of Cairo, last week found the tomb belonging to Meri Aten, a high priest under the pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from 1379-1362 BC. Akhenaten broke away from the polytheistic ancient Egyptian religion to worship a supreme being incorporated in the solar disk, called aten, but the cult, which was accompanied by a more realistic art form, did not survive beyond his reign. His wife was the legendary Nefertiti and his successor was Tutankhamun. – AFP