Thutmose III

Thutmose III officially ruled from 28 April 1479 BC, but for the first twenty-two years he was coregent with his stepmother and aunt Hatshepsut, who held the title of pharaoh. He became sole ruler only after her death in 1458 BC. What followed was a military juggernaut: between seventeen and twenty campaigns, all victorious, recorded in the inscriptions known as the Annals of Thutmose III. He also created the ancient Egyptian navy, the first of its kind in the ancient world. Two years before his own death on 11 March 1425 BC, and after losing his firstborn son Amenemhat, he appointed a younger…