King Amenhotep II (1437-1392)

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Horus name of Amenhotep II

Nebti name of Amenhotep II
Name: Amenhotep, Aakheperure, Great are the manifestations of Re, Amenhetep, Amenophis.

Amenhotep II was the son of Thutmes III and the Great Royal Wife Hatshepsut Meryet-Ra, Amenhetep II proudly extended his father's military custom. During his twenty-three years of sole rule, he fought different campaigns in Syria and boastfully narrated them on the walls of numerous of his monuments. In one case, he had 7 Syrian princes taken as captives of war, killed them, and hung them top down on the satellite wall of a temple in Thebes. He frequently discovered his athletic talents, asking that no one could equal his talents as an archer, horseman, offset or oarsman. Such boasts may have been a way of finding that he was seen as a strong, virile ruler.

Amenhetep II established at Karnak and at Luxor as well as at other Egyptian and Nubian sites. He was buried in KV 35. Four or five centuries later, the tomb was plundered. Later yet, it was used for the reburying of ten royal mummies, gone there for safekeeping by priests involved about thieveries in the Valley of the Kings. Amenhotep, the 4th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, was a big ruler that stood out in both horsemanship and archery. While a prince, he was broken the dominate of the naval home near Memphis. In his 1sth year as king the Asiatics rose, but to no avail. He spent his 2nd year in Syria defeating individual uprisings. His productive return to Egypt was showed by the captive officers that were hanging top down on the prow of his ship. The same were acephalous in a ceremony by Amenhotep's own hand. His son, Thutmose IV base the throne when Amenhotep died at the age of 45. His remains show signals of a systemic illness which plausibly attributed to his death. He built a court in the Temple of Luxor, that was later adorned by Tutankhamun and Horemheb. Amenhotep II's grave is in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes.



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