Friday 21 October 2011

Pharaoh Amenhotep III

(Sometimes written Omnovis III) was the ninth pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt One of the greatest rulers in history., Ruled Egypt from June December / December 1391 BC - 1353 BC or June Herodotus December / December 1388 BC, 1351 BC / 1350 BC (1391 BC. m. --1 353 BC. m.)

Was Amenhotep III in the early years of his interested in sports, especially fishing and huntingwhere the hunter great where he found his Djarana record when he grabbed a hundred oxground on a fishing trip the ownership of the two-day scarab last issued in the tenth year in which he stated that since his accession to the throne, killed 102 of the black in fishing trips andshowed 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 groupof enemies and having defeated them expanding the area of ​​his property until he reached the fourth cataract, and without a reminder of this campaign on the rocks near the island of Konosuheart, also described his campaign against the country's shift on the plate obesity is now in theBritish Museum.

Has another revolution in the town of lighter waterfall located after the second and the Nuba have a self-management under the supervision of the Royal Son of Kush Amenhotep sent his deputy in the countries of the South and the son of the king to suppress the revolution was not shared by Amenhotep III, and most of his reign was characterized by stability
 
Built Amenhotep temple at Thebes, but completely destroyed after that, and also built several temples in Thebes, in Karnak, built a temple to the god Mento god of war, who was Lord of the territory of a good and then replaced by the god Amun, the Temple last of the gods death of wife of the god Amon Ra.
 
Also contributed to the Temple of Amun, the temple's main Karnak built edifice third of the temple, and was Amenhotep faithful to his family Ra and built a temple of Karnak to exceed priests for his mother was a woman, and the greatest building set up by Amenhotep at Thebes temple funerary, and found effects in the Delta and the Torah and in the milk and the Memphis and Giza, Cape Town, Armant and also in the Sinai

And Amenhotep III statues sitting are known as the Colossi of Memnon in Thebes West sculpted each from a single piece of red sandstone and has a height of 15 meters without the rule ordains architect Amenhotep bin Habo, and they were Izina interface temple funeral, which was completely destroyed and are now Qaúmin side of the road leading to the temples Royal tombs of kings and the existing Paljbana and why these two famous statues that when the earthquake happened in 27 BC. AD shook the good and led to the splitting of the statue in half at the northern and middle
 
  After that the stone sends vibrations of sound by doing an internal due to abrupt changes of moisture and temperature at dawn showed the legend that the statue be issued voices lament or heroic Ethiopian Memnon Aurora, goddess of dawn, her son, who fell in the field of the Trojan every morning and it took the name of the statues has also Amenhotep the third issue many commemorative scarabs know which five scarabs kept time, the oldest confirmed as the title of Queen Tiye Home Queen

 Married Amenhotep III in the second year of his reign of Queen Tiye and did not have the assets of ownership, but her father were the incumbents in the positions luxury in the state, bore him Amenhotep IV's successor, and has had many wives, including marriages diplomatic princesses foreigners such as Princess Geloikhyeea girl King of parenchymal and Princess of two rivers, he married his sister Isis, and in the thirtieth year of his other sister called six Amon, known that he fathered six children, of whom two sons Thutmose, the eldest son, died in his life and Amenhotep IV, and four daughters. And is likely to be the fourth Amehtb have participated in his father's throne.

Died Amenhotep III after ruling for 38 year at the age of fifty-perhaps because of a disease is unknown, and discovered the tomb prepared for himself in 1799, a cemetery, No. 22 Valley of the Kings and discovered Juluh and Dvljeh was found empty and the walls destroyed by the pressure and weather conditions were not his. Inside, where I found his. in a cemetery near Deir el-Bahari was concealed by the priests, and discovered in 1881

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