Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt

Known rulers, in the History Of Egypt , for the Eighteenth Dynasty.

The Eighteenth, Nineteen and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom .

The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the most famous of all the dynasties of Ancient Egypt . It included Tutankhamen , whose relatively undisturbed tomb was one of the greatest of all archaeological discoveries, Akhenaten , widely held to have promoted one of the first expressions of Monotheism , possibly second only to that of China , as well as a number of Egypt's most powerful Pharaoh s. Although modern students of Egyptology consider the monotheism of Akhenaten the most important event of this period, this period was believed to be when the Hebrews were kept as slaves in Egypt, though this theory is widely debated by Egyptologists.

The dynasty was founded by Ahmose , the brother of Kamose , the last ruler of the Seventeenth Dynasty . Ahmose finished the campaign to expel the hated Hyksos rulers. With this dynasty, the Second Intermediate Period Of Egypt ended, and the New Kingdom Of Egypt or the Egyptian Empire began.

Highlights of this dynasty include: Queen Hatshepsut , who effectively ruled during the minority of her stepson, but was later considered a usurper; the first formal relations with foreign countries under Amenhotep III , of which some records were included in the el Amarna Letters ; Akhenaten, whose religion offended many in power, and who later suffered Damnatio Memoriae . Scholars believed that Akhenaten caused a great deal of antipathy by his devotion to his God Aten , which contributed to the end of this dynasty.

Its final years were clearly shaky: the unidentified widow of King Nibhururiya (identified with either Akhenaten or Tutankhamun ) wrote to Suppiluliumas I , king of the Hittites , asking him to send one of his sons to be her husband and rule Egypt. Suppiluliumas sent an ambassador to investigate, who reported that the situation was accurately described; however the destined Hittite prince Zannanza was murdered en route on the borders between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires, and the last two members of this dynasty – Ay and Horemheb – came from officials of the royal court. Suppiluliumas I reacted with rage at the news of his son's death by going to war against Egypt's vassal states in Syria and Northern Canaan and captured the city of Amki. Unfortunately, Egyptian prisoners of war from Amki carried a plague which would eventually ravage the Hittite Empire and kill both Suppiluliumas I and his direct successor.

The Nineteenth Dynasty of Ramesses I succeeded it in 1292 BC .

EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY TIMELINE

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from: -1550 till: -1525 color:PA text:" Ahmose I "
from: -1525 till: -1504 color:PA text:" Amenhotep I "
from: -1504 till: -1492 color:PA text:" Thutmose I "
from: -1492 till: -1479 color:PA text:" Thutmose II "
from: -1479 till: -1425 color:PA text:" Thutmose III "
from: -1479 till: -1457 color:PA text:" Hatshepsut "
from: -1425 till: -1399 color:PA text:" Amenhotep II "
from: -1399 till: -1389 color:PA text:" Thutmose IV "
from: -1389 till: -1351 color:PA text:" Amenhotep III "
from: -1351 till: -1337 color:PA text:" Akhenaten "
from: -1336 till: -1334 color:PA text:" Smenkhkare "
from: -1334 till: -1325 color:PA text:" Tutankhamun "
from: -1325 till: -1321 color:PA text:" Kheperkheprure Ay "
from: -1321 till: -1292 color:PA text:" Horemheb "

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History Of Ancient Egypt

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