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Thutmosis III. (British
Museum). Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or
Tuthmosis III, Thothmes in older history works, and meaning "Thoth
is born") was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was
co-regent with his stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named
the pharaoh. While he was shown first on surviving monuments, both
were assigned the usual royal names and insignia and neither is
given any obvious seniority over the other. He served as the head of
her armies. After her death and his later rise to pharaoh of the
kingdom, he created the largest empire Egypt had ever seen; no fewer
than seventeen campaigns were conducted, and he conquered from Niya
in North Syria to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Nubia. |
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