(Also called
Akhenaten,
Akhnaton,
Ikhnaton or
Amenophis IV.) His birthdate is unsure; he ruled somewhere between 1375
B.C.E. to 1357 B.C.E. (ish), when he died. He was the first
Egyptian Pharoah to abolish the
polytheism of his ancestors in favor of worship of a single
deity,
Aton (or
Aten).
Tutankhamen, his successor, dismantled Amenhotep's
monotheism and brought the old polytheistic ways back to
Egypt.