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Aménophis

The Pharaon Aménophis III

Aménophis as a Amenhotep Egyptian. Name of four Pharaons of the XVIII E dynasty.

Aménophis I

Aménophis I (v. 1557 - 1530 av. J. - C.). He undertook the construction of the temple of Amon with Karnak.

Aménophis II

Aménophis II (1450 - 1425 av. J. - C.). One discovered, in 1898, his fall into the Valley of the Kings.

Aménophis III

Aménophis III (v. 1410-1375 av. J. - C.). It made raise the temple of Louqsor and a vast funerary temple of which there remain only the famous colossi of Memnon. Its activity of large builder made it call “Aménophis the Splendid one”. But it was to the detriment of the political power of Egypt which, under its reign, was disputed by vassalized or combined States.

Aménophis IV (Akhenaton)

Aménophis IV (1372-v. 1354 av. J. - C.). It achieves a double religious and political revolution. It replaced the worship of Amon by that of the solar god Aton, and adopted the name of Akhenaton, which means “that which likes the Earth”. It transported its capital of Thèbes to Such Al-Amarna.

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