TSL, shmTSL... Guys, Ottoman Empire had the same capital city as Byzantium for most of its history, and yet, I believe there shouldn't be a big problem in getting both to the game. They are both highly wanted Civs.
In Civ5, yes. But I do not know what the placement of this would be like in Civ6. This would be a great wonder, although.
Akhenaten...
I would strongly suggest, that you keep your towel in a save place, because it is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
The problem with Hatshepsut is she would look kind of like Cleo, she would have trade bonuses like Cleo. As much as I'd love to see Hatshepsut, she just overlaps too much with Cleo IMO. I would love to see Akhenaten included, though. Like Henry VIII or Louis XIV, he's one of those weird, huge personalities who becomes monumental to their civilization despite not being the best ruler. Honestly that Louis XIV and Akhenaten were overlooked in the first place is a real shame in a game about big personalities. (Turning Victoria into a hissy-fit throwing girly girl was a bit of a misstep, too, especially since Elizabeth I was well-known for her hissy-fits.)
Henotheistic or monolotrous. Atenism didn't deny the existence of the other gods; it simply focused exclusively on Aten to the exclusion of the other gods. (Cf. formalized Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and most forms of Zoroastrianism, which deny the existence of any god but YHWH, God, Allah, or Ahura Mazda/Zurvan [depending on the variety of Zoroastrianism in question].) NB that henotheism was the norm in the Near East at the time and was probably also the norm in Pre-Dynastic Egypt; Egyptian polytheism was probably the result of merging the major cults together when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified. Akhenaten just chose to pick out a relatively obscure god and assign primacy to him, mostly to break the power of the priesthood of Amun, which was beginning to eclipse that of the pharaohs. A clever political maneuver that ultimately backfired--but clever nonetheless.
Grants faith (that Babil means "gate of the gods" is almost certainly a folk etymology, but that doesn't mean we can't use it) and culture, adds a bonus to the city's defense rating, and maybe Ancient Walls generate tourism before Conservation.
@Eagle Pursuit can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that patches get depots.
There is a chance that the new depot is something that many players won't care about such as additional modding tools, and it could be a DLC smaller than an expansion. But based on past iterations of civ, it seems likely that it's the second expansion.
As others have guessed, I doubt we'll hear anything official until after the Nintendo switch version comes out in mid November.
So if you don't like the current state of the game and don't like to experiment with mods (your own or others'), come back in two months to see if there's any more news.
