Recent DNA analysis sponsored by the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass published in February 2010, identified The Elder Lady in a side chamber of Amenhotep II's tomb ( KV35 ) as Queen Tiye .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

While the decorations of Horemheb's KV57 tomb walls was still unfinished upon his death, this situation is not unprecedented: Amenhotep II's tomb was also not fully completed when he was buried but this ruler enjoyed a reign of 26 Years.

It is still possible to estimate when Thutmose II's reign would have begun by means of a heliacal rise of Sothis in Amenhotep I's reign, which would give him a reign from 1493 BC to 1479 BC, although uncertainty about how to interpret the rise also permits a date from 1513 BC to 1499 BC, and uncertainty about how long Thutmose I ruled could also potentially place his reign several years earlier still.

10056, which dates to sometime after Amenhotep II's tenth year, refers to a king's son and setem-priest Amenhotep.

This Amenhotep might also be attested in a stele from Amenhotep II's temple at Giza, however the stele's name has been defaced so that positive identification is impossible.

Webensenu's name is otherwise attested on a statue of Amenhotep's chief architect, Minmose, and his canopic jars and a funerary statue have been found in Amenhotep II's tomb.

10056, Amenemhat would also be Amenhotep II's son.

10056, Aakheperure would also have been Amenhotep II's son.

The length of his reign is indicated by a wine jar inscribed with the king's prenomen found in Amenhotep II's funerary temple at Thebes ; it is dated to this king's highest known date — his Year 26 — and lists the name of the pharaoh's vintner, Panehsy.

A stele, originally from Elephantine and now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, recording Amenhotep II's successful campaign against Syria, and dedicating war booty and prisoners to the Temple of Khnum.

Amenhotep II's cartouche showing later damage and a variation of his nomen ( from Karnak )

Amenhotep II's KV35 tomb also proved to contain a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II, Ramesses III, Ramesses IV, and Ramesses VI.

They had been re-buried in Amenhotep II's tomb by the 21st Dynasty High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, during Siamun's reign, to protect them from tomb robbers.

The most detailed and balanced discussion on the chronology, events, and impact of Amenhotep II's reign was published by Peter Der Manuelian, in a 1987 book on this king.

The document, which dates to " Year 23 IV Akhet 1, the day of the festival " of Amenhotep II's accession to power, is a copy of a personal letter which the king composed himself to Usersatet, his viceroy of Kush ( Nubia ).

Thutmose IV was born to Amenhotep II and Tiaa but was not actually the crown prince and Amenhotep II's chosen successor to the throne.

His mummy was found in the royal cache of Amenhotep II's tomb KV35 in 1898.

* March-Victor Loret discovers Amenhotep II's mummy in his KV35 tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings within the original sarcophagus, together with a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II and Ramesses III, IV and VI.

* Amenhotep ( 18th dynasty ), his mummy was found in QV82 along with that of a certain Minemhat ; his familial relationships are unknown

Her mummy was identified as The Elder Lady found in the Tomb of Amenhotep II ( KV35 ) in 2010.

Tiye's mummy was discovered in an opposite side chamber to Amenhotep III in KV35.

British scholars Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton once stated that " it seems very unlikely that her mummy could be the so-called ' Elder Lady ' in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

Believed by a growing number of experts to be the mummy found in KV55, he is thought to be a younger son of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye, and therefore a younger brother of Akhenaten.

The reports sum up the issue by saying that " the proof that Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye are the parents of KV55, combined with this anthropological and archaeological evidence, indicates that the mummy in KV55 is almost certainly Akhenaten ".

However, genetic studies of the Egyptian royal mummies, led by Zahi Hawass and Carsten Pusch, have now established that Tutankhamun ’ s biological mother was KV35YL, the " Younger Lady " discovered in the mummy cache in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

The report concludes that either Nebetah or Beketaten, younger daughters of Amenhotep III who are not known to have married their father, are the most likely candidates for the identity of the Younger Lady mummy.

In particular, this would mean Amenhotep died when he was 52, but an X-ray analysis of his mummy has shown him to have been about 40 when he died.

In 1898 it was located along with eighteen other mummies in the mummy cache found in the tomb of Amenhotep II ( KV35 ) by Victor Loret.

However, with DNA testing, this mummy was shown in February 2010 to be a woman, the mother of Tutankhamun, and the daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye ( making her both the sister and wife of Akhenaten ).

In 1898, it was discovered along with 18 others in a mummy cache within the ( KV35 ) tomb of Amenhotep II.

When Amenhotep IV became Pharaoh ( circa 1353 BC ), the supreme deity was considered to be Amun-Ra ( itself the result of an earlier rise to prominence of the cult of Amun, resulting in Amun becoming merged with the sun god Ra ).

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

The goddess's statue was sent to Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt in the 14th century BC, by orders of the king of Mitanni.

An Egyptian funerary inscription of 1430 BC records that the warrior Amenhotep ( Amenophis ) II was also renowned for his feats of oarsmanship.

Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten ( formerly Amenhotep IV ) and one of Akhenaten's sisters .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

In the Temple built within the citadel, a scarab of Queen Tiye of Egypt, who was married to Amenhotep III, was placed in the Room of the Idols alongside at least one statue of either LHIIIA: 2 or B: 1 type.

The solar Aten was extensively worshipped as a god in the reign of Amenhotep III, when it was depicted as a falcon-headed man much like Ra.

The reign of Amenhotep III, as a result was not quite so tranquil for the Asiatic province, as Habiru /' Apiru contributed to greater political instability.

The boldest of the disaffected nobles was Aziru, son of Abdi-Ashirta, a prince of Amurru, who even before the death of Amenhotep III, endeavoured to extend his power into the plain of Damascus.

It is possible that Amenhotep II, son to Thutmose III by a secondary wife, was the one motivating these actions in an attempt to assure his own uncertain right to succession.

* c. 1348 BC – 1327 BC: State ship, detail of a tempera fascimile by Charles K. Wilkinson of a cow painting in the tomb of the governor of Nubia Amenhotep Huy in Qurnet Murai was made.

In his fifth year, Amenhotep IV officially changed his name to Akhenaten, and Nefertiti was henceforth known as Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti.

Amenhotep II, born and raised in Memphis, was made the setem — the high priest over Lower Egypt — during the reign of his father.

The earliest known burial in Saqqara was performed in the reign of Amenhotep III by his son Thutmosis ; afterwards, seven more bulls were buried nearby.

Amenhotep ( ỉmn-ḥtp ; “ Amun is pleased ”) was an ancient Egyptian name.

The expedition to the Naharina announced by Thutmosis I at the beginning of his reign may have actually taken place during the long previous reign of Amenhotep I Helck believes that this was the expedition mentioned by Amenhotep II.

During the reign of Shuttarna in the early 14th century BC the relationship was very amicable, and he sent his daughter Gilu-Hepa to Egypt for a marriage with Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Kilu-Hepa, or Gilukhipa, the daughter of Shuttarna II, was married to Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled in the early 14th century BC.

When Amenhotep III fell ill, the king of Mitanni sent him a statue of the goddess Shaushka ( Ishtar ) of Nineveh that was reputed to cure diseases.