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The Pharaon Thoutmosis III
Museum of Cairo. Hajor photograph


Thoutmosis forms Greek of the Thoutmès Egyptian. Name of four Pharaons of the XVIIIe dynasty.

Thoutmosis I

Thoutmosis I (v. 1525 - v. 1512 av. J. - C.), bastard son and successor of Aménophis I.
Large conqueror, it made countryside in Nubie and on Euphrate. Its tomb is oldest of the valley of the Kings.

Thoutmosis II

Thoutmosis II (v. 1512 - v. 1504 av. J. - C.). Son and successor of the precedent, he was the first husband of the Hatshepsout queen.

Thoutmosis III

Thoutmosis III (v. 1504 - v. 1450 av. J. - C.), son of the precedent. Constrained to marry his aunt Hatshepsout, it reigned only after the death of this one. He undertook then a brilliant policy of conquests, carrying the New Empire with his apogee. He subjected Palestine and Syria, prevented the expansion of Mitanni and gained great victories with Megiddo and Qadesh (these important facts were immortalized on the walls of the temple of Amon with Karnak). In the south, it extended its authority to the 4th cataract.

Thoutmosis IV

Thoutmosis IV (1425 - 1417 av. J. - C.), son of Aménophis II. He concludes a treaty with Mitanni and sealed this alliance by marrying a princess mitannienne. He made clear the Sphinx of Gizeh covered by sands.

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