After Ahmose Egypt was ruled by powerful kings such as Amenhotep I (1546-1526 B.C.), Thutmose I (1525-1512 B.C.) and Amenhotep III (1417-1379 B.C.).
Amenhotep I
Thutmose with his family
Amenhotep 3
The New Kingdom was notable for the role of royal women such as Queen Hatshepsut (1503-1482 B.C.), who began ruling as a regent for her young stepson (he later became Thutmose III, Egypt's greatest military hero), but rose to wield all the powers of a pharaoh.After her death and his later rise to being the pharaoh of the kingdom, he created the largest empire Egypthad ever seen; no fewer than seventeen campaigns were conducted, and he conquered from Niyain North Syriato the fourth waterfall of the Nilein Nubia.
Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost fifty-four years, and his reign is usually dated from April 24, 1479 BC to March 11, 1425 BC; however, this includes the twenty-two years he was co-regent to Hatshepsut—his stepmother and aunt. During the final two years of his reign, he appointed his son and successor, Amenhotep as his junior co-regent. When Thutmose III died, he was buried in the Valley of Kings as were the rest of the kings from this period in Egypt.
Queen Hatshepsut
Queen Hatshepsut
According to Egyptologist James Henry Breastedshe is known as "the first great woman in history
of whom we are informed
Temple of Hatshepsut
El Dir El Bahari
Hatshepsut Temple
The controversial
Amenhotep IV (c. 1379-1362), of the late 18th dynasty, undertook a religious
revolution, disbanding the priesthoods dedicated to Amon-Re (a combination of
the local Theban god Amon and the sun god Re) and forcing the exclusive worship
of another sun-god, Aton. Renaming himself Akhenaton ("servant of the
Aton"), queen Nefertiti was his wife ,he built a new capital in Middle Egypt called Akhetaton, known
later as Amarna. Upon Akhenaton's death, the capital returned to Thebes and
Egyptians returned to worshiping a multitude of gods.
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