Akhenaten, the “Heretic Pharaoh”. Originally “Amenhotep IV” (1353-1335 BC), ninth king of the Eighteenth Dynasty New Kingdom. Soon after ascending the throne, Amenhotep renounced his beliefs in the god “Amun” and in his own name. Changing Egypt into the world's first Monotheistic culture in allegiance to the god “Aten” (the God behind the Sun Disk), hence his new name, “Akhenaten” (Beneficence of the Aten). Akhenaten, together with his wife “Nefertiti” (The Beautiful Woman has come), ruled Egypt and worshiped the Aten from a new capitol in what is today called “Tel el-Amarna”. In the twelfth year of his rein, Nefertiti disappeared and Akhenaten wept following the death of their child “Meketaten”. Akhenaten had three wives and six children in total, one of which was “Tutankhaten”, who later upon the reversal back to polytheism and the god “Amun”, changed his name to “Tutankhamun”.