Hello! I would like to give a big welcome to all new members joining the group! As we're a new group, we'd really appreciate it if you could help make it...
Hi, I'm a sixth form student and I've just set up a fresh and new Ancient Rome group. Its therefore only just set up and needs some help to really get going....
Amenhotep III aceded to the throne of the world's only acknowledged superpower in his early teens, his father, Tuthmosis IV, having ruled for only nine years....
A few comments on a very interesting summary. Egypt was by no means the only superpower. The Mitanni, the Hittites, the Babylonians were all certainly major...
Hi I am new to the group. My main interest is in the armana period although I am just an interested amateur and eager to learn more. I have been lucky enough...
The pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty opnely acknowledged a great debt to the god Amun, for they well understood that it was Amun who had enabled the mighty Theban...
<<Has anyone any thought on whether Joanne Fletcher has really found the mummy of Nefertiti. Her aguements were very persuasive, but no other academics seem to...
<<By the later 18th Dynasty, however, there are signs that the monarchy may have started to feel itself challenged by the ever- increasing power of Amun.>> ...
Thanks for the information, I had no idea of the repercussions of the t.v. programme. I saw it just recently and am pleased the arguement has been settled On...
<<I think its shocking just how severely she has been 'punished'.>> Before you get too sympathetic, she went ahead and published her book based on the TV show...
Amenhotep III began to pay attention to the other gods of the pantheon, partially reverting back to Old Kingdom solar theology. He developed a particular...
With the death of Amenhotep III, the ancient world took comfort in the fact that his son, Amenhotep IV and Queen Tiy, would continue his father's legacy. ...
Now something strange was happening on Egypt's temple walls. While Amun-Ra, king of the gods, assumed a curiously muted presence, the ancient sun god...
Hello....Jane/isis here... One has to take into consideration that, as stated in another msg., Amenhotep III had 'rehabilitated' a rather minor solar deity,...
Hi its Jordan here, Owner of sister group, Temple of Jupiter I certainly believe, in what limited information I know, that Amenhotep III used the monotheism of...
... AP NEWSLETTER 1: 26 MARCH ... INTRODUCTION Well, what a week or so it has been! Thanks to everyone for helping the Network get off to a great start. Even...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the horizonaten group: In the early years of Amenhotep IV's reign, the Aten was growing in...
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Within five years of his succession Akhenaten had practically destroyed Egypt's ancient polytheistic religion and had dismissed most of the established...
Very little is really known about this short, and very misunderstood period in ancient Egyptian history... There are many libraries full of rhetorical ideas...
I just voted in the poll and want to explain my vote of "neither" I have the opinion that AMenhotep III was interested primarily in increasing the power of the...
Well, its' quite easy to try to 'think' for the AE in hindsite...but we actually don't know just why Amenhotep III and IV did what they did..... As far as...
Theory.....Matrilineal Descent This theory refutes the old 'traditionalist' theory, rife with their own old misinterpretations of Egyptian art and life by...
Early Dynastic: MERYT-NEITH/MERNEITH: ['Mernieth' was commonly a male name. The female equivalent was 'Meryt-Neith',(mry.t nth). [Dynasty 1]. Believed to have...
<<the mythic story of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut being 'mortal enemies'...and that he was responsible for the defacing of her monuments and mortuary chapel...
I am thoroughly convinced that you are correct on that score....but there are some answers that are quite plausible..... 1. Thutmose [III] was a very young...
I am not familiar with the Old Kingdom data but I have seen data on females titles in the 18th Dynasty that makes me believe that this theory did not hold for...
<<the queen may have acted as regent for her son, but held all the powers of king.>> The fact that a KIng's wife acted as regent for a minor child after the ...
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