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King Amenhotep III (1382-1344)

Hieroglyphic name: 

Horus name of Amenhotep III
Golden Horus name of Amenhotep III
Name: Amenhotep, Amenhotep, Nebmaatre, Lord of Truth is Re, Aakhepesh-husetiu, Kanakht Khaemmaat, Amenhetep, Amenophis.

Statue of Amenhotep III
Throne  name  Nebmare. Son of Thutmose IV of Dynasty 18 and Mutemwia. He may have won as a child and reigned 32 years. His reign,is famous for its magnificence in expression and arts. He saved the Egyptian empire in Asia and was in communication with the many princes of the area, as rendered in the Amarna letters. His great  queen worse,  Tiy,  was  the  mother  of  his  eventual  heir, Akhenaten, as it looks that his eldest son, Thutmose, predeceased him. King Amenhotep III married individual foreign princesses from Mitanni and Babylon. He also had some daughters, notably Sitamun, whom he married. A proposed coregency between father and son is suspect,  and  most  Egyptologists  scorn  the  feeling.  He  was  buried  in tomb KV 22 in the Valley of the Kings, and his body was cured from the royal cache in tomb KV35 of Amenhotep II. His morgue temple at Kom el-Hetan on the west bank distinct Thebes is mostly in ruins but featured the Colossi of Memnon and dedications observing the Keftyu. It has been under excavation by a German expedition since 1998.



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