King Thutmose III

King Thutmose III  – Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt – The New Kingdom – Egyptian Pharaohs kings

Facts The Warrior Egyptian Pharaohs kings & History King of Egypt “Thutmose III, Tuthmosis III, Thothmes III, Thutmose the Great”

The life story of the most famous Pharaohs kings, the eighteenth dynasty in the Pharaonic Civilization of Ancient Egypt.

History Of Egyptian & The secrets of life of the king, the warrior and the pharaoh and what are the secrets of the conflict between him and Queen Hatshepsut over the reign of the Pharaonic civilization and more about Ancient Egypt History.

King Thutmose III  Facts 

Date of birth: 1482 BC.

Date of death: 1425 BC.

Age at death: 82 years.

Reign dates: 1479–1425 BC.

Duration of reign in Ancient Egyptian Government: 54 years.

Pharaonic dynasty:^18th dynasty.

Wives of the King:

• Queen Sat Iaah.
• Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut “Female Pharaohs” It has the Tomb of Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut Ra | KV42 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
• Queen Nebetu.

Father: King Thutmose II

Mother: Queen Isset

Son:

• King Amenhotep II

Burial place: Tomb of King Thutmose III | KV34 in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

The Pharaonic Monuments of King Thutmose III:

1. Stone statues to indicate the development of Sculpture in Ancient Egypt and Architecture in ancient Egypt.
2. Tomb of King Tuthmosis III No. 34 in the Valley of the Kings Tombs in southern Egypt,
3. The Funerary Temple Of King Thutmose III is one of the most famous Mortuary Temples in the city of Thebes.
4. Pharaonic Obelisks among the obelisks of the Pharaohs
5. Building and constructing 4 huge obelisks in the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, and all of them have now been transported to the squares of Turkey, America, England, and Italy.
6. The Temple of Thutmose III, which is considered one of the most important Pharaonic funerary temples in the Deir el-Bahari area in Mount Qurna, Luxor, next to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, “but is currently demolished.”
7. Build a lot of buildings in the Karnak temple complex.
8. Many royal palaces and small temples are built.
9. Construction of the sixth and seventh giant gates and the celebration hall in the Karnak Temple in Luxor.
10. Completion of the construction of the Medinet Habu Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
    Building a temple dedicated to the worship of God Ptah, the most famous ancient Egyptian deities, in the city of Memphis.
11. Building a temple in the Amda and Semna area.
12. Building a temple on Elephantine Island in Aswan to worship the God Seshat.
13. Statues of the king were discovered in the areas of The Temple of Kom Ombo, Temple of Edfu, Ain Shams, and Arment.

The obelisks of King Thutmose III:

The construction of seven large obelisks but currently existing in famous squares around the world.

1. Building seven large obelisks, but they are currently located in the field around the world.
2. Obelisk in London, Britain.
3. Obelisk in Central Park, New York, USA.
4. Obelisk in Istanbul, Türkiye.
5. An obelisk in Rome in front of the Church of St. John in the Lateran, Italy.

Why was Thutmose III a great ruler?

• He was called the Pharaonic king in civilization Ancient Egypt Napoleon of the Pharaonic era, his son King Thutmose II from The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in The New Kingdom.
• He assumed the throne of Egypt 20 years after the death of his stepm other Queen Hatshepsut, Pharaonic queens of Egypt “Female Pharaohs” Throughout Egyptian history and he received the Coronation of the Pharaohs.
• He destroyed most of them Egyptian Temples and Egyptian Monuments and statues of the queen Hatshepsut like Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir El Bahari in revenge for being deprived of ruling Egypt for a long time.
• Conducting more than 15 military campaigns to protect Egypt’s eastern, southern, and western borders from enemies as in Geography of ancient Egypt.
• He had a strong desire to increase Egypt’s land area and seize control of the surrounding cities and countries.
• He is considered one of the first Pharaonic kings to organize and innovate new methods of composition The Military of ancient Egypt, He divided the army into a core and two wings and analyzed and studied the battlefield before going into battle.
• He defeated Amir Kadesh in the battle of Megiddo “Battle of Kadesh“.
• Texts were discovered by Hieroglyphic language “Ancient Egyptian Language” on the temples and Egyptian Tombs, The Pharaonic describes King Tuthmosis III with qualities and titles such as “a young, raging bull who threatens with his horns and nothing stands in his way.”and”The crocodile is the master of terror in the waters.”
• He is the founder of the beginning of imperial construction Ancient Egyptian Pharaonic, which was considered one of the most prosperous and best economic periods in History Of Egyptian Civilization as in Trade in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egyptian science.
• King Tuthmosis III was wise and known for his wisdom, so he was keen to develop Ancient Egyptian Literature and pay attention to beliefs, such as in the Ancient Egyptian religion. Ancient Egyptian Papyrus were found of his advice to the minister Rekhmerre, and he has the tomb of Rekhmerre during his accession to the throne of Egypt.
• The king had a primary wife, namely Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut and it was built Tomb of Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut Ra | KV42 in Valley of the Kings, Luxor.
• build Tomb of King Thutmose III | KV34.

Battle of Gedo:

It was a battle between the armies of King Thutmose III in the second year of his rule against a strong alliance of 330 states and provinces under the Emir of Kadesh.

King Tuthmosis III used his military intelligence and devised a precise plan to eliminate them. He ordered the army forces to walk on a rugged mountain road, hidden from sight, even if there was an element of surprise in the attack on the other army.

Indeed, the Pharaonic king was victorious, defeated the enemies, and set off towards the city of Megiddo to besiege the city until its people completely surrendered. Then he pardoned them and imposed on them obedience and paying taxes annually. 

Achievements of King Thutmose III:

1. He was the first to establish a regular army and a regulated naval fleet in the Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt.
2. Build castles and large forts to defend the borders of Egypt.
3. Build a highly organized army as the addition of ranks of knights and pharaonic war chariots.
4. Create brigades of archers in the army.
5. Command military campaigns to defend the borders of ancient Egypt such as the Battle of Magedo and strong battles against the peoples of the sea and strong battles against the Kingdom of Mitanni.
6. Increase in the Egyptian border area, where it reached the borders of northern Syria and the borders of the countries of Iraq, from the west to the Euphrates and from southern Egypt to the fourth cataract in Sudan.
7. To educate the sons of the rulers of the Asian regions in a good city to teach ancient Egyptian culture and Medicine in ancient Egypt, Astronomy in ancient Egypt and gain their loyalty to Egypt as Queen Hatshepsut had done.

The military qualities of King Thutmose III:

• Strong solidity of his militant personality.
• Acquire military expertise during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut.
• Macho and with a strong warrior body, Where he played all the games and Ancient Egyptian Sport.

After becoming king, King Thutmose III liked to remember that during his childhood, the procession of the statue of God Amun deviated from the road he was to take, and headed towards the place where the little prince stood, as if God wanted to choose him as his son, so that the rights of King Thutmose III to the throne would not be contested,  he was the son of Thutmosis II.

but his mother God Isis was not of royal origin. She was a beautiful woman with wide eyes with a thin nose and a noble and elegant expression, sitting wisely in a comfortable chair with her hands above her knee. Undoubtedly, she did not have that excessive ambition and malevolent spirit that was with the sister of the late king, Hatshepsut.

The little prince was appointed king, ascended the throne and took royal titles, and began to prepare for his years of reign, but Hatshepsut quickly seized power and retained it until her death in the 21st  or 22nd year of her reign.

How did they treat King Thutmose III in the meantime?

We have no idea, but in any case, he lost nothing in the meantime, and when he opened the way to the throne, he was still a young boy.

The statues of the king are numerous, and when they come together, nous can know the features of the king, and he had a nose that indicated greatness, and refers to his distinctive feature, and he inherited it from his family by the father, because Hatshepsut has a nose close to that.

His most beautiful sculpture is a statue that was found in The Royal Cache of Deir el-Bahri broken into several pieces found in the same place with the statue of his mother, which has been well restored, and we can enjoy seeing it preserved in The Egyptian Museum “Museums in Cairo“.

The face is perfectly well preserved, and what is missing does not diminish the value of the work. One can guess in his features a firm man.

As King Senusret III of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt and Middle Kingdom of Egypt said before:

“A man says and does what his heart thinks is achieved by his arm. The neck is short and the necklace is impressive. In short, a strong man kept his titles from time to time, which he took from the beginning:

God Horus: The powerful bull that shines in Thebes.

The two ladies: The one who keeps royalty like the sun in the sky.

Golden Horus: The One who has the sacred apparition.

King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Durable are the manifestations of Ra.

The surname and birth name of King Thutmose III were compiled by the historian Josephus.

What did King Thutmose III do with the statues of Queen Hatshepsut?

The new king does not have affection for Queen Hatshepsut, he has hammered his cartridges “Egyptian Cartouche” since the beginning of his reign, whether in Karnak or in his own temple Deir El-Bahari, and broke into small pieces sphinxes and statues that are among them some that were found in a passage in front of her temple,  does not seem to have carried out any kind of retaliation against as to Senenmut and all those who served the queen faithfully, nothing proves any of this.

He had other interests. It was no secret to the Prince of Jahi and the other Asian princes that Queen Hatshepsut did not favor military campaigns, that she liked to accumulate the goods of her beautiful city and perhaps have a good time.

They have already mobilized troops in Magedo who have not directly threatened Egypt, but it is foreseeable that one day they will be dangerous.

King Thutmose III did not forget the time when a Hyksos king ascended the throne in Awaris and remained for years of years the Palestinian city of Sharohin. To prevent these events, he gathered an army and crossed the border of Tharo on the Biloz branch of the Nile in the year 23, the fourth month of winter, on the 25th.

He took control of Gaza nine years later, and continued his march north to the town of Miam in the Asdron Valley, and here he held a council with his brave soldiers and said:

This despicable enemy of Kadesh’s sons entered Magedo he is here right now and the rulers of all the foreign countries that were on the water of Egypt, the Riverinas, the Syrians, the sons of Kado, their horses, their armies and all their people gathered around him. He (this enemy) even said: I got up to fight here in Magedo, so tell me what’s going on in your mind.

I must open parentheses here, because the battle was not between two forces, one of which was launched against the other, it was subject to laws and these laws are preserved by the gods.

King Thutmose III is the life story of one of the most famous kings, the pharaohs, the eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.

A former text from the Middle Kingdom:

In an old text of the Middle Kingdom, they take the general that it was not announced with precision on the day of the meeting of the two armies. Since then, the Egyptians have changed their war habits. The events we are facing were preceded by the exchange of messages, and the enemy lost he fell when I learned that in Magedo, he called King Thutmose III to tell him the day of the fight and pledge not to surprise him with the fight.

In order to reach Magedo, there were three paths they had to choose from Luxor and to lead, but to do it and walk there is in a row, a horse behind a horse and a man after a man.

May our brave commander advance on the path that his heart loves and his desire to act so that we do not have to walk on this bumpy road.

A cut sentence, apparently taken from the enemy’s proposal,

The king replied:

“I swear that as long as Ra loves me and as long as my father Amun praises me, and my horizon full of life and vitality, My Majesty will advance through this road (leading) to Aruna, who among you wants to walk through these two ways of which you have spoken, let him go, but who among you wants to be with My Majesty,  follow me, what do those vanquished who are terrified of God think, His Majesty takes another path, and a difference with us will be taken away from us, that is what you think.

They say in the presence of His Majesty:

Your father, Amun, acts according to your wishes, yes, we will stay with Your Majesty, wherever you go, this is how the servant behaves in the wake of his master.

Then he took a great oath:

I will not allow an army to get out of this right before My Majesty, His Majesty has decided to walk at the head of his soldiers, so that everyone knows his order on the way, a horse after a horse and his majesty in the lead his troops.

Military campaigns:

On day 19 of the first month of summer, there was an evening in His Majesty’s tent in the village of Aruna, he wanted to continue north under the patronage of his father Amun, who opened the roads…. The south wing is located in Ta’anaqa, while the north wing is located in Zawiya (south  of the Cana Valley).

Here is what they said in Her Majesty’s hands, her life, her health, and her strength:

Here is Your Majesty appearing with your best soldiers who filled the valley, I wish that our master allows us this time, I wish that our master makes us wait for the rear of the army.

The king granted this desire and arrived south of Magedo on the banks of the Cana Canal.

It was 7:00 in the morning, and they crossed the canal and reached the orders and instructions of his soldiers.

Prepare. We will meet this enemy during the morning, and there was a guard of arms, nothing prevents us from checking that this enemy during has fulfilled his commitments. For many times, the Egyptian army has been in turmoil and should prepare for an equal battle.

On the^21st day of the first month of summer, the day of the ninth month: the king got up early, went to be in the vanguard of his soldiers, and advanced on his cart of war, equipped with all weapons, like Horus and Monthu.

His father, Amun, strengthened his arms, the south wing surrounds the mountain south of Cana, and the right-wing northwest of Magedo and his majesty in the center.

The docking was short, and the enemies fled, leaving their war chariots and horses and rushing to fortify at Magedo.

Ah, if His Majesty’s soldiers had not been busy, through looting, they would have immediately taken control of Magedo.

Thus, the despicable loser prince of Kadesh and the lost enemy of this city (i.e.  Magedo) were withdrawn to enter the city (Magedo), because His Majesty’s celebrity controlled their weapons and helpless weapons, and the Egyptians seized a big booty.

Defeating the Syrians:

At the end of this period, the leaders of this country came lying on their stomachs kissing the earth before Her Majesty and asking for the same life. They handed over gold, silver, lapis lazuli “Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy” and turquoise as well as supplies of troupes. Because the Egyptians took all the horses, the allies of the Prince of Magedo marched to their headquarters on the backs of the donkeys, and this Egyptian writer remembered wickedness and cunning.

It was a hard lesson for the Syrians, but in the East, nothing stops, and King Thutmose III will find the same enemies and other enemies, at least until the year 42, whether in Jahi, in northern Syria, in Mesopotamia or in the country of the interior.

In the year 29, he destroyed the pays of  Jahi  and captured 60 enemy ships, and in 30 years Kadesh was destroyed on the Orontes River and  Simera  arrived on the coast, and the following year he invaded Tunip and conquered the Great Abyss of Mitani in an hour, and the Egyptians crossed the Euphrate to Qarqamish by cedar boats from N’Djao.

a country belonging to Byblos, and these boats were towed by cows from the bank of Orontes to the bank  of the Euphrates.

They could not advance north of the Great River and returned born in a city, where water flows between two rocks, and here he worked, and you understand that he met a herd of elephants. Suitable for getting a beautiful and rare substance like ivory.

The larger elephants turned to the king, qui was in great danger, but was rescued by one of his officers, who quickly cut off his hand.

He means: Cut his pipe, and if he is still alive, the king briefly mentions this incident, and this brave officer may have said so, otherwise we would not have known anything about it. It is an aspiration that we will work with his prowess during the operations he orchestrated against the Prince of Kadesh. His horse set off between the soldiers and was followed by a sword, his belly, tail and foot cut off in front of the king, and we would not be surprised to learn that this warrior was the first to enter Kadesh.

Many victories and actions were done by miracles, two guards in their watch saw a sacred star shooting from south to north, and the Egyptians were not surprised, but their enemies trembled, and their horses could not leave.

The great booty that the Egyptians acquired through Cyril is their journey through their roads to the ports occupied by Pharaoh aboard the ships of Crete and Byblos, cedar wood, loaded with planks, accessories, and large woods to make His Majesty’s great ships. These same ports were brought by commercial products from all countries.

Construction of the Great Temple of Amun:

These successful campaigns did not divert the king from the interest in the countries of the south, the Egyptians so far did not go beyond the second cataract, and in the time of Thutmose III, they reached the holy mountain: Mount Barqel, at the fourth cataract, where Reisner found the magnificent stella recorded by the king’s works in Syria.

It was very important for the inhabitants of Thebes to know how to thank the gods and gather the crowd.

In the middle of the Great Temple of Amun, we find ourselves passing through the sixth pylon in a building with the names of the warrior king everywhere. Here, the king relentlessly spares his enemies, offering a large booty containing things that come from Syria and others made in good workshops of materials received during his campaigns.

The countries of the South have done as their counterparts in the North, each with his name written in the form of a toothed oval from which a representative of this country emerges. The directories here are complete. After the ruins of the Temple of the Middle Kingdom, we find a building called Menekh Akh Menou, “The News of Ra  Illuminant”, which is considered by some as a holiday room, a long ship, and its columns are unique in the art of Egyptian architecture “Festivals in Ancient Egypt“.

At one corner of this building is a list of ancestral kings that Prisse D’Avennes transferred to Louvre Museum piece by piece. In this building there is also what has been called the Garden of Plants, from which only the lower level remains.

Did King Thutmose III want to compete with Queen Maat Ka Ra, who replanted the incense she had brought from the land of  Punt  in the temple of Deir El-Bahari? Among the birds and deer, we  recognize irises, chrysanthemums and pomegranates, which the Egyptian artist photographed with precision.

Nothing shocks visitors except the large number of obelisks built in Karnak or Heliopolis, and its peaks are gilded and sometimes covered with gold throughout the upper third, shining in the sun all day and radiating a mysterious light in the moonlight.

These obelisks are separated from the time of the pharaohs of Atlantis, one of which is located in London and the other in New York, and another obelisk in Istanbul, as the texts mention another pair of obelisks whose place is no longer known precisely.

The text of the stella of the song of King Thutmose III:

King Thutmose III erected a granite stella that testifies to his gratitude for beauty to Amun and the good gods, while Amun admires the king’s work.

“I came, and I made you crush the great Jahi, and I stretched them under your feet along their mountains.

I made them look at Your Majesty, like the Lord of Light, shine on their faces as my image.

I have come and asked you to crush the people of Asia and destroy Ross Amo in Orontes.

I asked them to watch Your Majesty carry a war kit, while holding the battle weapons on your war chariot.

You have come, and I have sustained you, to crush the land of the East, and to walk on the people of Palestine.

I made them see Your Majesty as a star that radiates light and rains.

I came, and I made you crush the land of the West, like Avitio and Cyprus in fear of you.

I made them see Your Majesty as a young bull, with pointed horns, high, invariable.

I came and made you terrorize him, in soaking and fraternity.

My country trembles before you with horror and division.

I have made them see Your Majesty, the War Lord, in the water, and no one will condemn him.

I came and I made you terrorize the people of the islands in the heart of the yam, you see your cry in the square of the Ogue, and I showed them to you, apparently arrived on the back of his opponent.

You have come to perish the (Libyans) and the islands of Entery depend on your soul. I showed them Seven Bats to Your Majesty, and the valleys were filled with their epileptic grandparents.

You have come to crush those who are at the edge of the earth or you have done what is under the sun to your right, and I have shown you the world in the form of a hawk that falls on it and takes everything it wants.

I have come and made you crush those who… And take his Bedouin prisoners, and make them see as the jackal of the South, Mr. … Both lands are growing very quickly.

I came and made you crush. Nubia is even the Shaa country (Sha’a or Shatt).

It’s a beautiful song despite some mistakes resulting from the very specific conventions he used, and let us know the author of this song that you had to insert to be the king himself, he practiced for this style of spelling and was a Master of It, so why didn’t King Thutmose III taste lyrically?

The achievements of King Thutmose III for external relations:

His tour begins in Jahi and Syria, moving between East and West, dedicating two sections to the peoples of the sea and the rest of the song dedicated to the peoples of Africa to the fullest extent. Divide each section into two parts.

If we identify the oppressed, the pharaoh presents itself in the body in which it is crushed, sometimes as in Crete and Cyprus, presenting itself in the form of a God, a bull with sharp horns, and it is no secret that King Thutmose III treated it with the same contempt as the country he actually defeated and with other countries like Greece,   Crete and  the people of Cyprus, who, as I never know, never invaded them.

The day he returned to Egypt was the beginning of the flood, as we did when he received gifts and wishes. The pharaoh accepted the congratulations and distributed gifts prepared a year ago to the royal Attiles.

They placed it in a large hall of the palace, where they erected a large tent with two chaises for the king and queen. The curator asked his assistants to greet the king and the monarchy and gave them his rich works, then the king and queen came down from the podium, visiting the exhibition, as in the case, the king looks at the arms and the queen cares first about the ornaments.

Without the author of the precious statues and pots that were to be sent to foreign princes, they finally found an alabaster pot engraved with the names of King Thutmose III.

How did King Thutmose III receive foreign ambassadors?

The reception of the foreign ambassadors and the accompanying campaign of offerings were an opportunity to present the greatness of Egypt, where the ceremony takes place in a spacious courtyard and resides on the platform of two tents decorated with unprecedented sororities.

The king sits in his chair, the heavy objects carried by the delegation with him are placed in front of the podium.

The same delegation is headed by a senior Egyptian official, and the foreigners themselves lie on the ground begging and praising the king while he hears without attention, and they also offer something precious. On one occasion, Rekhmi Ra was depicted in processions from four parts of the world, and the fifth included hostages.

It can be an artificial combination that allows more than one different ring to be grouped together at a glance. But nothing prevents this from happening, and the king received the five procedures in a single meeting.

The people of Punt arrived first, and it was just in terms of time.

“Punt’s delegation came in peace, giving the masked heads with his gifts from everywhere to the News of His Majesty of Ra that he lives forever: all the good offerings of their country unless someone else wears it, the whole country belongs to His Majesty … »

Bettors wore not only incense in its various forms, but also ponies, feathers, wood, live animals, giraffes, monkeys, and chimpanzees. It is far from certain that King Thutmose III repeated the adventure of Queen Maat Ka Ra, who sent her ships to the land of Punt and its inhabitants, and their houses built on high foundations.

This is not excluded, but we must not lose sight of the fact that there was only one way to return to Egypt with Punt products: the Nile, as well as the road, and it certainly went slowly and along the coast.

The inhabitants of Kvito and the sea islands here are not defeated peoples in the literal sense of the word. Their boats undoubtedly arrived in the ports of Jahi and were seized by the Egyptians with their looted goods and other merchandises they were carrying to Egypt.

They are distinguished by their long, wrinkled hair and feet and are known as Gina in Egypt, they saw them at the time when we will die and shine in disaster, and they will appear in the time of Thutmose III and in the era of his immediate successors, that is, in the age of powerful kings.

Thus, at the third and fourth levels, the secular peoples were subjected to forced labor and exploitation, the peoples of the south and the people of Orontes, and a fifth level with the children of their princes.

The meeting ended, and materials and objects were collected and Pharaoh’s stores were introduced, and for the best use.

There will be other opportunities for the king to appear in public meetings, when he decides to reward his staff, and he appears on the balcony of transfigurations.

The royal club calls on the elect who enter one after the other, to hold in the air the cup or the golden cup thrown by the king as a sign of satisfaction and nobility.

The Louvre preserves a trophy that the king gave to the prince and the divine father that fills the heart of the king of the whole country and the islands of the sea. It was the king’s duty to be generous with his staff.

During his victorious campaigns, King Thutmose III did not exclude much of his strength, and once the royal club calls for important work done by one of them, the king takes a box with something precious to give him the courage he keeps and never leaves.

The works of King Thutmose III in temples and statues:

King Thutmose III was courageous in the fighting and leadership of his own armies. But the king does not forget his ancestors; in the building of Akh Menou, the names of 61 ancient kings have been engraved since the time of King Sneferu “Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, Old Kingdom of Egypt” and have arranged them in a context that has often confused historians.

One of his first royal works was the restoration of the statues of king Amenhotep I and King Thutmose III, and in Sinai he restored an ancient inscription of Sesostris III, with whom he felt close.

The gods are transformed into their different forms, from outside the dynasty, those who inspire the king with active piety can be represented as a lady with a head of a screamer, or a human head, but surmounted by a solar disk surrounded by two horns or a cow’s head, showing her servants two packets of papyrus in her mouth.

Thus, she appeared, without a doubt, on the third to his visit to the west bank of the Nile to choose his funerary temple in what is believed to be an acceleration of the belly of the gods to breastfeed his milk, and as soon as he drinks this milk until he himself becomes a holy being.

For this reason, the Artist from Deir El-Bahari gave her a black skin, just like Amwa with Queen Nefertari “Wife of King Ramses II of Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt“, as is the case with the wooden statues that protected the entrance to Tomb of Tutankhamun | KV62, which belonged to the most famous king of the Pharaohs, King Tutankhamun.

The wives of King Thutmose III:

King Thutmose III had several wives and concubines, and three of them depicted next to the king in his burial chamber: Queen Merit Ra, who was alive, and Queen Sat Iaah and  Nebetu, and one of his daughters, who died like him. He approaches the sacred tree, where she appears in the form of the gods, his mother Isis, who gives her breast, whom the king meets closely as if he were still a baby.

Among his other wives, Merit Ra may have had a privilege because she gave him Crown Prince Amenophis, sometimes representing mother and son next to each other. Thutmose III was intended to raise his son.

I would like to talk here about his sports education, because he was trained by an archery teacher, and under the guidance of this teacher, the boy made rapid progress and was able to stand on an equal footing with his father.

“He drew three hundred strong bows, to compare the work of his makers and differentiate the clumsy craftsman from the skillful craftsman but did what I would offer you.

As he was interested in entering his northern garden, he discovered that four thick firing boards had been fixed for him, made of Asian copper, and that they fixed them at a distance of five arms between each column, and when His Majesty appeared aboard his chariot as Monthu in his strength,  he grabbed his bow and threw four arrows at a time and threw them on the shooting boards:

Each arrow of his penetrated the firing board, and His Majesty attacked the next goal. In the skill of horseback riding, there is no one like the young prince:

“When he reached his father’s audience at the Royal Palace, the powerful revolutionary Horus, who shines in Thebes (his father’s descriptions), explained his heart of what is said about his only son”

What is the secret of King Thutmose III love for horses?

King Thutmose III loved horses and dedicated a wonderful stable to them, in which he kept, as we have seen, all the horses of the allies of the Prince of Magedo, who returned to their cities on donkeys.

Act so that he can be given the finest horse in My Majesty’s stable in Memphis and say to him: Be vigilant towards him, learn to obey yourself, make him speed up his walk and take care of him.

After this conversation, the prince chose to be part of the royal stable…. This has made it an unparalleled villa, he does not get tired, no matter how long he has been collecting it, and then he does not filter sweat with the length of the enemy.

Thus, King Thutmose III taught his son to control the desires of the body and to love hardness, and to prepare him for the royal function, and to prepare him as heir.

In this tough warrior, the sight of blood flowing on the ground does not make him vibrate. We are happy when we find human feelings, he loves and worships his mother, and undoubtedly loved the mother of the crown prince, the exploits of this integrated athlete a lot, he is a paddler and archery and a knight filled with pride to ensure the future of the family.

He demonstrated to the comrades-in-arms who saved him more than once a very deep sense of friendship. One of those who saved him is Amun Em Heb, who accurately tells us the length of King Thutmose III reign:

“The king ended his term in many years and was happy in courage and ability and remained victorious from the first year until the 54th year, the third month of winter on the last day.”

This period includes a 22-year period during which Hatshepsut ruled alone, but his one-on-one reign of more than 30 years said Amen Em Heb.

While the kings of the Old and Middle Kingdom, next to their The Pyramids of Giza “Great Pyramid of Giza, Pyramid of Khafre, Pyramid of Menkaure“, built Pharaonic Temples for their worship, the kings of the New Kingdom built along the west bank of the Nile River on the top of the west mountain the temples with which they commemorate and remember the good gods. The tombs were dug in the west mountain, considering them as a collective pyramid (i.e., the mountain).

Temple of King Thutmose III in Luxor:

The temple of King Thutmose III was demolished to its foundations and his tomb was discovered inside a vestibule not exceeding one meter wide, at an altitude of 8 to 10 meters above the country of the valley, Victor Laurette, who was the first visitor to the place felt that the earth disappeared under his feet.

Going up from the well, he arrived in a room full of rubble, then in another room, the burial chamber, whose walls are decorated with brief hieroglyphics, colored in black and red, and a background in the colors of the cave as if it were a large papyrus, the Ancient Egyptian Coffins was empty, while the Mummy was exhibited about fifteen years ago in the Cairo Museum.

Thieves of Pharaonic Tombs:

The Egyptians in The Ramesside Period, the beginning of the rule of King Setnakhte and King Ramses III of the late Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, were no longer subject to their kings and priests., and they became the perpetrators of evil acts and formed gangs that looted temple warehouses and tombs, where princes lay covered in ornaments and jewelry.

Ancient Egyptian Grave Robbers and the first thefts were deterred, but not enough, which encouraged general chaos, to the point that almost no tomb remained intact and its contents were not plundered. This chaos and Revolutions in Ancient Egypt continued for several years, perhaps for about ten years.

They stopped when they couldn’t find anything to steal. The government organized races and opened quests, where stolen goods could no longer be fully recovered from the graves, but they transported the mummies of kings to a hiding place so that no one would disturb them.

They were found in the rock face that separates the edge of the Deir El-Bahari site from the next one where they look. At the end of a long vestibule, there are all the coffins they were able to save, as a school of a country of order. In two days of continuous work, everything was taken out and transported by boat from Thebes to the museum in Cairo.

All the inhabitants of both shores, men, and women, followed the long procession, shouting and crying till the port on Nile.

The mummy of King Thutmose III 

The mummy of King Thutmose III did not appear because of this transfer, but it is naked of all its decorations, placed in a modest ornate wooden coffin, and is in poor condition, and its length after various restoration works has not reached 160 cm. It is all that remains of the king that made the whole East shudder.

The cemetery was discovered in 1898 AD under the direction of the archaeological excavation campaign of Egyptology archaeologist Victor Loret.

Texts of the wars of Thutmosis III in Syria and Lebanon:

The wars of Thutmosis III were a rare example of the amusing historical tales told by a group of Egyptian historians and writers, the most important of which are at least two writers.

The first writer recounted in a blog post on two papyrus diaries how one of the rulers of Thutmosis III called “Thoti”   misled the governor of Jaffa and introduced him to his soldiers with a funny trick by hiding them in baskets mounted on donkeys (which reminds us of the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves and epic of the Iliad) and the king rewarded him by being the one. he ruler of the countries of the North.

The second writer, Thanini, who accompanied the king in his military campaigns and recorded his war trip to the Levant, accompanied his many conquests and described them on lost skins and papyri, leaving only the inscriptions of Karnak to immortalize what he wrote, which arrived prematurely. Thutmosis III first conquered the Levant when he was in his 33rd year of reign and reached the Euphrates, and his last battle took place in and around Kadesh at the Battle of Mageddo in1456 B.C.

Note: Facts and secrets of the history of the Pharaoh kings will be added soon…

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