Amenhotep III's relations with m-w-k-i-n-u, * Mukana, have corroboration from the inscription at Kom al-Hetan-but Amenhotep's reign is thought to align with late LHIIIA: 1.

In the reign of Amenhotep III's successor, Amenhotep IV, the Aten became the central god of Egyptian state religion, and Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten to reflect his close link with the new supreme deity.

Her gilded burial shrine ( showing her with Akhenaten ) ended up in KV55 while shabtis belonging to her were found in Amenhotep III's WV22 tomb.

These may simply have been votive offerings made to Amenhotep III's burial while Tiye was still alive.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

Hence, Amenhotep III's marriage to his two daughters should not be considered unlikely based on contemporary views of marriage.

Another striking characteristic of Amenhotep III's reign is the series of over 200 large commemorative stone scarabs that have been discovered over a large geographic area ranging from Syria ( Ras Shamra ) through to Soleb in Nubia.

Amenhotep III's refusal to allow one of his daughters to be married to the Babylonian monarch may indeed be connected with Egyptian traditional royal practices that could provide a claim upon the throne through marriage to a royal princess, or, it be viewed as a shrewd attempt on his part to enhance Egypt's prestige over those of her neighbours in the international world.

The official account of Amenhotep III's military victory emphasizes his martial prowess with the typical hyperbole used by all pharaohs.

The arrival of the statue is known to have coincided with Amenhotep III's marriage with Tadukhepa, Tushratta's daughter, in the pharaoh's 36th year ; letter EA 23's arrival in Egypt is dated to " regnal year 36, the fourth month of winter, day 1 " of his reign.

Faience decoration with Amenhotep III's prenomen from his Theban palace, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Amenhotep III's highest attested reign date comes from a pair of Year 38 wine jar-label dockets from Malkata ; though he may have lived briefly into an unrecorded 39th Year and died before the wine harvest for that year arrived.

One of the most stunning finds of royal statues dating to his reign was made as recently as 1989 in the courtyard of Amenhotep III's colonnade of the Temple of Luxor where a cache of statues was found, including a-high pink quartzite statue of the king wearing the Double Crown found in near-perfect condition.

Further celebrations surrounding the raising of the djed are described in a relief in Amenhotep III's Luxor Temple.

In the tomb in the temple, the scene shows the raising of the djed pillar taking placing in the morning of Amenhotep III's third Heb-Sed, which took place in his thirty seventh regnal year.

Objects inscribed with Amenhotep III's nomen and prenomen might be contemporary with that king's reign and could be interpreted as possessions of Queen Tiye.

Fifteen years later, Tushratta married his daughter to his ally Amenhotep III to cement their two states alliances in Year 36 of Amenhotep III's reign ( 1352 BC ).

Leaving aside the escalation of scale – whereby each successive New Kingdom pharaoh strove to outdo his predecessors in volume and scope – the Ramesseum is largely cast in the same mould as Ramesses III's Medinet Habu or the ruined temple of Amenhotep III that stood behind the " Colossi of Memnon " a kilometre or so away.

Image: Colossi_of_Memnon. jpg | Amenhotep III's Sitting Colossi

She claimed to be under the influence of the personality of Babylonian princess and Pharaoh Amenhotep III's wife Telika-Ventiu, who supposedly lived about 3300 years ago.

As his father's chosen successor the Prince employed three distinctive titles: " Hereditary Prince ", " Royal scribe " and " Generalissimo "; the latter two of his titles are mentioned in a text at Amenhotep III's temple at Soleb and all three royal titles appear on a lintel now in Florence, Italy.

The Hittites did not use Danaja as did the Egyptians, even though the first Ahhiya reference in " Indictment of Madduwatta " precedes the correspondence between Amenhotep III and one of Madduwatta's subsequent successors in Arzawa, Tarhunta-Radu.

Amenhotep III was the father of two sons with his Great Royal Wife Tiye, a queen who could be considered as the progenitor of monotheism through her first son, Crown Prince Thutmose, who predeceased his father, and her second son, Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaten, who ultimately succeeded Amenhotep III to the throne.

For instance, 123 of these commemorative scarabs record the large number of lions ( either 102 or 110 depending on the reading ) that Amenhotep III killed " with his own arrows " from his first regnal year up to his tenth year.

As for the Year 27 hieratic graffito at Horemheb's Funerary temple at Medinet Habu and the Year 59 date from the inscription of Mes, Van Dijk argues that the first date likely inaugurated a statue of Horemheb during Year 27 of Ramesses II or III in Horemheb's temple while the latter date of Mes " can hardly be taken seriously, and indeed is not taken at face value by even the staunchest supporters of a long reign " for Horemheb since there was no standard Egptian practise of including the years of all the rulers between Amenhotep III and Horemheb as Wolfgang Helck makes clear.

From the Amarna letters, a series of diplomatic letters from various Middle Eastern monarchs to Amenhotep III and Akhenaten of Egypt, we find two letters from Ashur-uballit I, the second being a follow-up letter to the first.

He also built many temples in Egypt and built a tomb for himself in the Valley of the Kings ; he is the first king confirmed to have done this ( though Amenhotep I may have preceded him ).

It appears that during Amenhotep I's reign the first water clock was invented.

Amenhotep I was the first king of Egypt to separate his mortuary temple from his tomb, probably to keep tomb robbers from finding his tomb as easily.

Amenhotep acceded to the throne on the first day of the fourth month of Akhet, but his father died on the thirtieth day of the third month of Peret.

Amenhotep called this campaign his first in a Stele from Amada, however he also called his second campaign his first, causing some confusion.

One of the best-known 18th Dynasty pharaohs is Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of the Aten and whose exclusive worship of the Aten is often interpreted as history's first instance of monotheism.

The first temple was built for Amenhotep I of the 18th dynasty.

In the first letter from Amenhotep III, EA 1, he writes to assure Kadašman-Enlil that his sister, the daughter of Kurigalzu I has not in fact died, or been banished to a distant harem as a minor concubine, and to acknowledge the offer of one of Kadašman-Enlil ’ s daughters as yet another wife.

The structures within the Temple of Amenhotep IV at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, were used during the first four years of the reign of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, when he still referred to himself as Amenhotep IV, although they may have been constructed at the end of the reign of Amenhotep III, and completed by his son, the future Akhenaten.

He was an ally of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III and the diplomatic dealings of the kings are briefly recorded in the Amarna letters.

A heliacal rising of Sothis was recorded in the reign of Thutmose's predecessor, Amenhotep I, which has been dated to 1517 BC, assuming the observation was made at Thebes.

There are no recorded campaigns in Syro-Palestine during Amenhotep I's reign.

If Thutmose did not lead a campaign which has not been recorded into Asia before this recorded one, it would mean that the preceding pharaoh would have had to pacify Syria instead, which would indicate a possible Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep I.

A figure with the name Amenemhet is recorded behind a prince Amenhotep in Theban tomb 64, and assuming this Amenhotep is indeed the king's son from B. M.

LHIIIA: 1 corresponds with the reign of Amenhotep III, who recorded with the heading ti-n3-y ' Danaans ' ( Mycenaean * Danawoi ) the apparently equal cities d-y-q-e-i-s ' Thebes ' ( Mycenaean * T < sup > h </ sup > egʷais ) and m-w-k-i-n-u ' Mycenae ' ( Mycenaean * Mukanai ).

Amenhotep II also tried to break traditions by preventing the names of his wives from being recorded and introducing women who were not from the royal lineage into the line of descent — without success — as his designated heir was overlooked.