# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amenemhat-iii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:01.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amenemhat-iii"
name: "Amenemhat III"
slug: "amenemhat-iii"
description: "He inherited a pacified Egypt and turned inward — quarries, canals, two pyramids, a temple complex so vast the Greeks later called it the Labyrinth. Under Amenemhat III the Middle Kingdom hit its economic peak, not through conquest but through stone and irrigation."
tagline: "Pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-1900"
deathDate: "-1806"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Amenemhat III likely ruled alongside his father Senusret III for twenty years before taking sole power, stepping into a kingdom his father had already subjugated and centralized. He poured that stability into building: a temple to Sobek in Faiyum, colossal statues at Biahmu, excavation work at Lake Moeris, and two pyramids — one at Dahshur, one at Hawara — the first pharaoh since Sneferu to build more than one for himself. He fed the program by strip-mining Egypt and Sinai: turquoise and copper from Serabit el-Khadim, schist from Wadi Hammamat, amethyst, granite, diorite, alabaster. Military expeditions were rare; a small one reached Kumma in his ninth year, a handful went to Punt. He reigned at least 45 years, possibly 46, and near the end elevated Amenemhat IV as co-regent. Sobekneferu closed the dynasty after him.