Pharaoh Akhenaton was born to Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
King Akhenaton, one of many ancient Egyptian pharaohs, is perhaps best renowned for his loyalty to one deity at a time when the rest of the world, by and large, worshipped several gods. He is certainly the only one of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to promote a monotheistic religion. This was not to occur again until the Roman Empire took control of Egypt and Christianity was instituted as the official religion.
Ikhnaten was the last important ruler of the 18th Dynasty and notable as the first historical figure to establish a religion based on the concept of monotheism.