Second from the left is Meritaten, daughter of Akhenaten.Īmenhotep III may have shared the throne for up to twelve years with his son Amenhotep IV. Akhenaten, the Amarna Period, and Tutankhamun Īkhenaten and his family adoring the Aten. Amenhotep III's consort was the Great Royal Wife Tiye, for whom he built an artificial lake, as described on eleven scarabs. Amenhotep III undertook large scale building programmes, the extent of which can only be compared with those of the much longer reign of Ramesses II during Dynasty XIX. Amenhotep II was succeeded by Thutmose IV, who in his turn was followed by his son Amenhotep III, whose reign is seen as a high point in this dynasty.Īmenhotep III's reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity, artistic splendor, and international power, as attested by over 250 statues (more than any other pharaoh) and 200 large stone scarabs discovered from Syria to Nubia. He had a second co-regency in his old age with his son Amenhotep II. Thutmose III, who became known as the greatest military pharaoh ever, also had a lengthy reign after becoming pharaoh. After her husband's death and a period of regency for her minor stepson (who would later become pharaoh as Thutmose III) Hatshepsut became pharaoh in her own right and ruled for over twenty years. Thutmose I was succeeded by Thutmose II and his queen, Hatshepsut, who was the daughter of Thutmose I. During his reign, the borders of Egypt's empire reached their greatest expanse, extending in the north to Carchemish on the Euphrates and in the south up to Kurgus beyond the fourth cataract of the Nile. Īmenhotep I probably left no male heir and the next pharaoh, Thutmose I, seems to have been related to the royal family through marriage. Ahmose was succeeded by his son, Amenhotep I, whose reign was relatively uneventful. Ahmose's consort, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was "arguably the most venerated woman in Egyptian history, and the grandmother of the 18th Dynasty." She was deified after she died. His reign is seen as the end of the Second Intermediate Period and the start of the New Kingdom. Ahmose finished the campaign to expel the Hyksos rulers. 1539–1493 BC, 37.38E, Brooklyn Museumĭynasty XVIII was founded by Ahmose I, the brother or son of Kamose, the last ruler of the 17th Dynasty. Head of an Early Eighteenth Dynasty King, c. The Eighteenth Dynasty is unique among Egyptian dynasties in that it had two queens regnant, women who ruled as sole pharaoh: Hatshepsut and Neferneferuaten, usually identified as Nefertiti. 1353–1336 BC), the "heretic pharaoh", with his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti. 1479 BC–1458 BC), the longest-reigning woman pharaoh of an indigenous dynasty, and Akhenaten (c. Other famous pharaohs of the dynasty include Hatshepsut (c. Several of Egypt's most famous pharaohs were from the Eighteenth Dynasty, including Tutankhamun, whose tomb was found by Howard Carter in 1922. This dynasty is also known as the Thutmosid Dynasty for the four pharaohs named Thutmose. The Eighteenth Dynasty spanned the period from 1550/1549 to 1292 BC. The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power.
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