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King Amenhotep I (1514-1493)


Hieroglyphic name:
Hieroglyphic name of Amenhotep I

Name: Amenhetep I, Amenophis I, Djeserkare, Kauwaftau, Bull (who conquers the land),
Statue head of Amenhotep I
(He who inspires great terror), Wahrenput.

Amenhotep I, also called Amenophis I, king of ancient Egypt (ruled 1514-1493 BCE), son Ahmose I, the founder of the 18th dynasty (1539-1292 BCE). He effectively big Egypts boundaries in Nubia.

The biographies of two soldiers substantiate Amenhoteps wars in Nubia. As showed by a graffito from the seventh year of his reign, he reached the frontier at the Second Cataract of the Nile, probably building a frontier farther southeastern on Sai Island. Amenhotep also busted Libya, but no items of the process are recorded. His only fixed activities in Asia are the resume of the mines at Sinai and the reoccupation of the fortress raised there through the Middle Kingdom (1938-1630 BCE), but there is supplemental prove that he held territory in Syria.

A fine small alabaster sanctuary of the pharaoh, as well as a lead of smaller chapels, has been cured at Karnak, and the kings official in charge of expression credits other temple to Amenhotep. His tomb was belike a rock-cut social system separated from its mortuary temple, a passing from earlier royal practice. He founded the cemetery workers village at Deir al-Madina in western Thebes, and in afterward periods both the king and his mother were idolized there.

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