Neferkheperure Waenre Akhenaten A biography by Megaera Lorenz. Drawing by Megaera Lorenz Some Historical Context: The second son of Amenhotep III and Tiye, Amenhotep. Cleopatra was an Egyptian queen who had affairs with Rome's Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. She and Antony were defeated by Octavian in the battle at Actium. Learn. Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt including all dynasties through the Greek Roman period: Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) The plural word for god was suppressed. Sometime in the fifth or sixth year of his reign, Akhenaten moved his capital to a new city called Akhetaten. Akhenaton, also spelled Akhenaten, Akhnaton, or Ikhnaton, also called Amenhotep IV, Greek Amenophis, king (1353–36 bce) of ancient Egypt of the 18th dynasty, who. Reeves maintains that the mysterious queen was the boy-king's mother and that she ruled over Egypt, succeeding her husband King Akhenaten, but these views are. Family: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the three eldest daughters Meritaten, Meketaten and Ankhesenpaaten. Akhenaten was known as Prince Amenhotep when he was young. Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh. As a young child Akhenaten was raised in a traditional Ancient Egyptian manner and observed religious rituals to the god Amon. On Biography.com, get the story of Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen depicted in sculpture whose name means 'the beautiful one has come.' Hatshepsut, also spelled Hatchepsut, female king of Egypt (reigned in her own right c. 1473–58 bce) who attained unprecedented power for a woman, adopting the full.