Thutmose IV restored the Sphinx and had the dream that inspired his restoration carved on the famous Dream Stele.

Although the reigns of Amenhotep II and Thutmose IV saw considerable royal focus in Memphis, power remained for the most part in the south.

His son, Thutmose IV received his famed and recorded dream whilst residing as a young prince in Memphis.

During his exploration of the site, Karl Richard Lepsius identified a series of blocks and broken colonnades in the name of Thutmose IV to the east of the Temple of Ptah.

It dates from the 18th dynasty, most likely having been carved during the reign of either Amenhotep II or Thutmose IV.

In addition to the palaces described below, other sources indicate the existence of a palace founded in the city by Thutmose I, which was still operating under the reign of Tuthmosis IV.

* Amenhotep, from the time of Thutmose IV.

Hathor among the deities greeting the newly dead pharaoh, Thutmose IV, from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt.

This culminated in a number of royal marriages: the daughter of King Artatama I was married to Thutmose IV.

The square in front of the Lateran Palace has an obelisk commissioned by Pharaoh Thuthmose III and completed by his grandson Thutmose IV in Karnak.

Its manufacture was started by Thutmose III and it was erected by Thutmose IV before the great Karnak temple of Thebes, Egypt.

His son and throne follower Thutmose IV freed the sphinx from sand and placed a memorial stela – known as the " Dream Stele " – between her frontal paws.

In the New Kingdom, the Sphinx was called Hor-em-akhet (; Hellenized: Harmachis ), and the pharaoh Thutmose IV ( 1401 – 1391 or 1397 – 1388 BC ) specifically referred to it as such in his Dream Stele.

The Dream Stele, erected much later by the pharaoh Thutmose IV ( 1401 – 1391 or 1397 – 1388 BC ), associates the Sphinx with Khafra.

The first documented attempt at an excavation dates to c. 1400 BC, when the young Thutmose IV ( 1401 – 1391 or 1397 – 1388 BC ) gathered a team and, after much effort, managed to dig out the front paws, between which he placed a granite slab, known as the Dream Stele, inscribed with the following ( an extract ):

Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, ( 1997 ) p. 190 </ ref > after his father Thutmose IV died.

The son of the future Thutmose IV ( the son of Amenhotep II ) and a minor wife Mutemwiya, Amenhotep was born around 1388 BC.

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.

* Thutmose IV, eighth pharaoh

Horemheb also reformed the Army and reorganized the Deir el-Medinah workforce in his 7th Year while Horemheb's official, Maya, renewed the tomb of Thutmose IV, which had been disturbed by tomb robbers in his 8th Year.

The reigns of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III were undistinguished, except that Egypt continued to lose territory to Mitanni in northern Syria.

Amenhotep's most important son was Thutmose IV, who succeeded him ; however, there is significant evidence for him having many more children.

However, in both these cases the figure identified as Amenhotep has been identified by some as possible references to the later King Amenhotep III, which would make these two princes sons Thutmose IV.

In addition to sons, Amenhotep II may have had a daughter named Iaret, but she could have also been the daughter of Thutmose IV.

Commenting on the fact that Egyptologists have no problem in reconstructing history using inference of this sort, whereas critics will sometimes not allow the same historical method to be applied to the Bible, Young writes, " Do those who reject the Menahem / Pekah rivalry as improbable also reject as improbable this reconstruction from Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty that Egyptologists use to explain the regnal dates of Thutmose III?

In the side chamber alongside Tiye were found, The Younger Lady, proved to be her daughter and the mother of Tutankhamun, and a young identified boy, sometimes thought to be Prince Thutmose.

Thutmose I ( sometimes read as Thothmes, Thutmosis or Tuthmosis I, meaning Thoth-Born ) was the third Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

Thutmose II ( sometimes read as Thutmosis, or Tuthmosis II and meaning Born of Thoth, probably pronounced during his lifetime as Djhutymose ) was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

Ineni ( sometimes transliterated as Anena ) was an Ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major construction projects under the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II and the joint reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

Representations of Thutmose III sometimes are accompanied by feminine pronouns and he is shown twice walking alongside Hatshepsut ’ s soul, her ka.

" The King's Favourite and Master of Works, the Sculptor Thutmose " ( also spelled Djhutmose and Thutmosis ), flourished 1350 BC, is thought to have been the official court sculptor of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter part of his reign.

Thutmose ( also rendered Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes, Tuthmosis, Djhutmose, etc.

Items found were stone vases bearing the names of Ahmose-Nefertari, Thutmosis I, and Hatshepsut, two quartzite sarcophagi inscribed for Thutmose I and Hatshepsut ( as pharaoh ), a canopic chest for Hatshepsut ( again as pharaoh ), the limestone blocks bearing funerary text ( see above ), and several fragments of the usual funerary furnishings.

Pharaoh, meaning " Great House ", originally referred to the king's palace, but during the reign of Thutmose III ( ca.

The full titulary of Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III, providing a guide to pronunciation and its equivalent meaning, is as follows

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

One pharaoh, Thutmose III, is depicted in his tomb as nursing from a sycamore tree that had a breast.

* c. 1492 BC — Thutmose I dies ( other date is 1493 BC ).

The precise date of Hatshepsut's death — and the time when Thutmose III became the next pharaoh of Egypt — is considered to be Year 22, II Peret day 10 of her reign, as recorded on a single stela erected at Armant or January 16, 1458 BC.

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.

While it is clear that much of this rewriting of Hatshepsut's history occurred only during the close of Thutmose III's reign, it is not clear why it happened, other than the typical pattern of self-promotion that existed among the pharaohs and their administrators, or perhaps saving money by not building new monuments for the burial of Thutmose III and instead, using the grand structures built by Hatshepsut.

Amenhotep II, the son of Thutmose III, who became a co-regent toward the end of his father's reign, is suspected by some as being the defacer during the end of the reign of a very old pharaoh.

It is highly unlikely that the determined and focused Thutmose — not only Egypt's most successful general, but an acclaimed athlete, author, historian, botanist, and architect — would have brooded for two decades of his own reign before attempting to avenge himself on his stepmother and aunt.

Writers such as Joyce Tyldesley hypothesized that it is possible that Thutmose III, lacking any sinister motivation, may have decided toward the end of his life, to relegate Hatshepsut to her expected place as the regent — which was the traditional role of powerful women in Egypt's court as the example of Queen Ahhotep attests — rather than king.

She is a daughter of Thutmose I.

Shunem is listed on the towns conquered by the Egyptian pharaohs Thutmose III and Shoshenk I.

Modern historians rely on a comparison of inscriptions and chronological considerations to reconstruct the chronology of Thutmose III, and there is unanimity among Egyptologists that he counted as his own years the 21 years that Hatshepsut was on the throne, even though no inscription has ever been found explicitly stating this fact.

An ancient and alternative way in which women managed to rise to power, especially without displacing the direct male line descendants of the first monarchs, is the historical Consortium or Coregency between husband and wife or other relatives, the most notable of these being the cases of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, as well as the Ptolemaic Dynasty's Kings and Queens.

Karnak was by this time mostly abandoned, and Christian churches were founded amongst the ruins, the most famous example of this is the reuse of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III's central hall, where painted decorations of saints and Coptic inscriptions can still be seen.

The earliest complete version of the Amduat is found in KV34, the tomb of Thutmose III in the Valley of the Kings.

The work is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by the sculptor Thutmose.

The bust of Nefertiti is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by the sculptor Thutmose.

In the Italian film Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile ( 1961 ) Nefertiti is in love with the young sculptor Tumos ( Thutmose ), played by Edmund Purdom, who is a friend of prince Amenophis ( Akhenaten ).

* Thutmose ( sculptor ), Akhenaten's court sculptor at Amarna, to whom is attributed the famous Berlin bust of Nefertiti

The earliest written record is in a list of Canaanite towns drawn up by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III at Karnak in 1465 BC.