The Life of Thutmose III

By Scriptural Research Institute

Thutmose III was the king of Egypt between circa 1458 and 1425 BC, after inheriting the throne from his father Thutmose II and his aunt Hatshepsut, however, after Hatshepsut died Thutmose III claimed to have been the king of Egypt throughout Hatshepsut's reign, meaning his regal years began circa 1479 BC when his father Thutmose II died. This at

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Ink Productions
• Release date: Nov 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781989852781

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The Life of Thutmose III

Memories of the New Kingdom, Volume 5

SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

COPYRIGHT

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

The Life of Thutmose III

Digital edition. November 29, 2023

Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

ISBN: 978-1-989852-78-1

These English translations were created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2020, primarily from the Hieratic and Hieroglyphic copies of the texts published in the past century, or when possible, high resolution photographs of the steles. Additionally, the following translations and commentaries were consulted for comparison: K. Sethe’s Urkunden der 18. Dynastie (1914), E. A. Wallis Budge’s The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (1914), James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt (1906).

The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘Israel in Egypt’ by Edward John Poynter, painted in 1867.

Note: The notes for this book include multiple ancient scripts. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the ranges for Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Hebrew, Linear B, Phoenician, Tifinagh, Ugaritic on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs or Neshite (Hittite) cuneiform correctly due to current limitations in Unicode.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

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Biography of Thutmose III

Siege of Megiddo

Capture of Jaffa

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Thutmose III was the king of Egypt between circa 1458 and 1425 BC, after inheriting the throne from his father Thutmose II and his aunt Hatshepsut, however, after Hatshepsut died Thutmose III claimed to have been the king of Egypt throughout Hatshepsut’s reign, meaning his regal years began circa 1479 BC when his father Thutmose II died. This attempt to erase Hatshepsut as a king of Egypt was likely not personal, as he did not attempt to usurp her authority during his life, but more likely an attempt to restore the respect for the kingship that appears to have been lost while Hatshepsut was on the throne.

The graffiti of Hatshepsut having sex with a man found near her mortuary temple clearly shows that