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Thutmose (/ θ uː t ˈ m oʊ s ə /; [1] also rendered Thutmoses, Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes, Tuthmosis, Thutmes, Dhutmose, Djhutmose, Djehutymes, etc.) is an anglicization of the ancient Egyptian personal name dhwty-ms, usually translated as "Born of the god Thoth".
The Tomb of Thutmose II is a royal ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud area west of Luxor. The tomb, also known by its tomb number Wadi C-4 , belonged to Thutmose II , a pharaoh of the 16th–15th centuries BC. [ 1 ]
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.
Thutmose II was the fourth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and his reign is thought to have lasted for 13 years, from 1493 to 1479 BC (Low Chronology), ...
Thutmose I's original coffin was taken over and reused by a later pharaoh of the 21st dynasty. The mummy of Thutmose I was thought to be lost, but Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, largely on the strength of familial resemblance to the mummies of Thutmose II and Thutmose III, believed he had found his mummy in the otherwise unlabelled mummy #5283. [37]
The obelisk was first erected during the 18th dynasty by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC) to the south of the seventh pylon of the great temple of Karnak.The Roman emperor Constantius II (337–361 AD) had it and another obelisk transported along the river Nile to Alexandria to commemorate his ventennalia or 20 years on the throne in 357.
Thutmose IV's Karnak chapel Thutmose IV's peristyle hall at Karnak. Like most of the Thutmoside kings, he built on a grand scale. Thutmose IV completed the eastern obelisk at the Temple of Karnak started by Thutmose III, which, at 32 m (105 ft), was the tallest obelisk ever erected in Egypt. [6] Thutmose IV called it the tekhen waty or
Thutmose died young and his death had an on-going impact. Although he was heir to the throne of his father Amenhotep III, his early death led to the reign of Akhenaten, his younger brother—as the successor to the Egyptian throne—and the intrigues of the century leading up to Ramesses II, the start and ultimately the failure of Atenism, the Amarna letters, and the changing roles of the ...