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Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, [3] (1481-1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. A brilliant military commander who created the ancient world's first navy, he conducted campaigns that brought ancient Egypt 's empire to its zenith.
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Thutmose III, who became known as the greatest military pharaoh ever, also had a lengthy reign after becoming pharaoh. He had a second co-regency in his old age with his son Amenhotep II . 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.
Tomb KV34 (Arabic: مقبرة تحتمس الثالث, romanized: Maqbarat Tahtamis al-Thaalithi) in the Valley of the Kings (near the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor) was the tomb of 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III. The tomb was plundered in antiquity and its location lost. It was rediscovered and first excavated in 1898 under Victor Loret.
Across her chest and shoulders is a gold and stone broad collar similar in design to one from the burial of three foreign wives of Thutmose III [190] and the collars seen on the coffins and mask of Thuya, the mother-in-law of Amenhotep III. [191] Her ears are double pierced and she wears two pairs of ribbed hoop earrings.
The mummy of King Thutmose II was discovered during the 19th century, not far away at another archaeological site known as the Deir el-Bahari Cachette, to which it was likely moved centuries after ...
Menhet, Menwi and Merti, [1] also spelled Manhata, Manuwai and Maruta, [2] were three minor foreign-born wives of Pharaoh Thutmose III of the Eighteenth Dynasty.They are known for their lavishly furnished rock-cut tomb in Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud near Luxor, Egypt.
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of King Thutmose II’s tomb on Tuesday, ending a search for what they called the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty ...