Saturday 22 January 2011

Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III (sometimes written Omnovis III) was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and the greatest of Egypt's rulers throughout history., ruled Egypt in the period from June December December 1391 BC - 1353 BC or June Vahtml December / December 1388 by Birth 1351 BC / 1350 BC (1391 BC. m. --1,353 BC. m.)

Amenhotep III in the early years of his reign are interested in sports, especially fishing and hunting where the hunter great where he found him on the scarab record when he grabbed a hundred Ox Road on a fishing trip the ownership of the two-day scarab last issued in the tenth year in which he stated that since he ascended the throne, killing 102 of the Black trips, fishing, and expressed little interest to military operations, where he faced Amenhotep some of the few in the fifth year of his reign in the land of Kush (Nubia), but the fighting was going on with a small group of enemies and after that defeated them expanding the area of his property until he arrived at the fourth cataract, has been without a reminder of this campaign on the rocks near the island of Konosu heart, also described his campaign against Nubia on the plate obesity is now in the British Museum

Has another revolution in the town of lighter occurring after the Second Cataract and the Nuba have a self-administered under the supervision of the royal son of Kush Amenhotep sent his deputy in the countries of the South and I'm the king to suppress the rebellion did not participate in Amenhotep III, and most of his reign was characterized by stability

Built Amenhotep temple in Thebes, but was completely destroyed after that, and also built several temples in Thebes, in Karnak, built the temple of the god Montu the god of war who was the Lord of the territory of Thebes, and then replaced by the god Amun, and another temple of the gods death of wife of the god Amon-Ra.

Also contributed to the Temple of Amun's main synagogue at Karnak built edifice, the third of the temple, was Amenhotep faithful to the God Ra and built him a temple of Karnak to exceed the Priest for his mother was a foreign woman, and the greatest building set up by Amenhotep at Thebes temple Mortuary, and found effects in the Delta and the Torah and in the milk and Memphis and Giza, Cape Town, Armant, and also in the Sinai

 And Amenhotep III statues sitting know the name of Memnon at Thebes West Carved from each single piece of red sandstone and a height of 15 meters without the rule aroused architect Amenhotep son of Hapu, who were Izina interface temple mortuary, which was completely destroyed and are now Qaimin side of the road leading to the temples Royal Tombs of the Kings of existing cemetery have discovered the cause of Fame, the two statues that when there was an earthquake in 27 BC. m shook the area well and led to the split of the statue north into two halves at the middle and then it was Stone sends a signal through the act of an internal result of the abrupt changes of humidity and temperature at Dawn appeared legend that the statue issue sounds a lament or hero Ethiopian Memnon Aurora goddess of dawn, her son, who fell in the field of Trojan every morning and it took the name of the statues has also Amenhotep III issued several scarabs commemorative know which five scarabs kept time, the oldest confirmed the title of Queen Tiye as Queen's Home

 Married Amenhotep III in the second year of the reign of Queen Tiye and did not have the assets of ownership, but her father were incumbents positions prestigious in the country, gave birth to Amenhotep IV and his successor, has had many wives, including marriages diplomatic princesses foreigners such as Princess Geloikhyeea girl king wished and Princess rivers, He married his sister Isis In the thirtieth year of his other sister called six Amon, known that he fathered six children of whom two sons Thutmose, the eldest, died in his life and Amenhotep IV, and four daughters. And is likely to be Imhotep IV and his father had participated in the throne

Died of Amenhotep III, after being sentenced for 38 year at the age of fifty-perhaps because of the disease is unknown, and discovered the tomb prepared for himself in 1799, a cemetery, No. 22 Valley of the Kings and was discovered by Juluh and Dvljeh was found empty and the walls destroyed by the pressure and the weather was no mummy inside, where And found the mummy in a tomb near Deir el-Bahari was concealed by the priests, and discovered in 1881

    

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