Thutmose III
Sixth Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty · Politicians · Lived 1481 BC to 1425 BC · aged 56
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Something wrong?Egypt's preeminent warrior pharaoh, who commanded seventeen to twenty consecutive victorious campaigns and pushed the empire to its territorial peak. Historians have called him the Napoleon of Egypt - though he came three millennia earlier.
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A wall block fragment inscribed with the birth name of Thutmose III. Now in the Petrie Museum, London
Relief from the Red Chapel showing Thutmose III following Hatshepsut.
Annals of Thutmose III at Karnak depicting him standing before the offerings made to him after his foreign campaigns
Thutmose III smiting his enemies. Relief on the seventh pylon in Karnak
Thutmose's tekhen waty, today standing in Rome as the Lateran obelisk. The move from Egypt to Rome was initiated by Constantine the Great (Roman Emperor, 324-337) in 326, though he died before it could be shipped out of Alexandria. His son, the Emperor Constantius II completed the transfer in 357. An account of the shipment was written by contemporary historian Ammianus Marcellinus.
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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 son, Amenhotep II, as junior co-regent. The empire he left behind stood at its zenith.
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