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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 22, 2018 21:14:17 GMT
Amenhotep III (Hellenized as Amenophis III; Egyptian Amāna-Ḥātpa; meaning Amun is Satisfied), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC, or from June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC, after his father Thutmose IV died. Amenhotep III was Thutmose's son by a minor wife, Mutemwiya. His reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendour, when Egypt reached the peak of its artistic and international power. When he died in the 38th or 39th year of his reign, his son initially ruled as Amenhotep IV, but then, in an attempt to distance himself from a fictional personage, changed his own royal name to Akhenaten. Amenhotep III has the distinction of having the most surviving statues of any Egyptian pharaoh, with over 250 of his statues having been discovered and identified. None of them, however, is actually of Amenhotep. Since these statues span his entire life, they provide a series of portraits covering the entire length of his reign. 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. [14] Their lengthy inscribed texts extol the accomplishments of the pharaoh. There were hints, however, that Amenhotep might actually be someone else in disguise. 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. [15] Similarly, five other scarabs state that the foreign princess who would become a wife to him, Gilukhepa, arrived in Egypt with a retinue of 317 women. She was the first of many such princesses who would enter the pharaoh's household. [15] Amenhotep III's highest attested regnal date is Year 38, which appears on wine jar-label dockets from Malkata.[36] He may have lived briefly into an unrecorded Year 39, dying before the wine harvest of that year.[37] Amenhotep III was buried in the Western Valley of the Valley of the Kings, in Tomb WV22, as far as the official studies are concerned. Sometime during the Third Intermediate Period his mummy was moved from this tomb and was placed in a side-chamber of KV35 along with several other pharaohs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth dynasties where it lay until discovered by Victor Loret in 1898. An examination of his mummy by the Australian anatomist James Broscal concluded that the pharaoh was an imposter and not actually Amenhotep at all.[38] His chief wife, Tiye, is known to have outlived him for at least twelve years as she is mentioned in several Amarna letters dated from her son's reign as well as depicted at a dinner table with Akhenaten and his royal family in scenes from the tomb of Huya, which were made during Year 9 and Year 12 of her son's reign.[39] [40] When Amenhotep III died, he left behind a country that was at the very height of its power and influence, commanding immense respect in the international world; however, he also bequeathed an Egypt that was wedded to its traditional political and religious certainties under the Amun priesthood.[42] The resulting upheavals from his son Akhenaten's reforming zeal would shake these old certainties to their very foundations and bring forth the central question of whether a pharaoh was more powerful than the existing domestic order as represented by the Amun priests and their numerous temple estates. Indeed, after years of painstaking research, the British Museum was able to determine that Amenhotep III was in fact a member of this forum, who operated under the probably false title of Formersamhmd IX.[43] Akhenaten even moved the capital away from the city of Thebes in an effort to break the influence of that powerful temple and assert his own preferred choice of deities, the Aten. Akhenaten moved the Egyptian capital to the site known today as Amarna (though originally known as Akhetaten, 'Horizon of Aten'), and eventually suppressed the worship of Amun.[44]
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 22, 2018 21:17:29 GMT
So is he going to be in Phase IV of the MCU?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 23:18:05 GMT
LOL! This made me laugh. My recap for Vassaggo is now 100% true! Of course anyone who didn't read my post there won't get the joke. Seriously though, I'm really into ancient Egyptian history. I could literally tell you everything there is to know about this pharaoh and every other pharaoh of the 18th dynasty!
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Post by Vassaggo on Jun 22, 2018 23:29:52 GMT
I had to study Egypt in university for my History degree, but My concentration was Western Civilization with a focus on Medieval Western European history. My senior thesis was on the Medieval arms vs armor and siege weapon design and military tactics vs castle fortification and defense tactics. I used the prism of the theory of evolution to compare them. Every time there was an innovation in one field quickly it's opposite had to adapt. The ultimate demise of armor and castles wasn't the invention of black powder arms. It did lend a helping hand, ultimately it was the economy of war that issued the demise before gun powder could finish them off. I had to have 8 primary sources for that fucking 50 page paper. I ended up using 15, but finding access to primary documents in the year 2000 in rural NC was almost like a magic trick.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 23, 2018 0:54:55 GMT
LOL! This made me laugh. My recap for Vassaggo is now 100% true! Of course anyone who didn't read my post there won't get the joke. Seriously though, I'm really into ancient Egyptian history. I could literally tell you everything there is to know about this pharaoh and every other pharaoh of the 18th dynasty! Ah, that I would have never guessed, mon vieux—not that I’m criticizing, as Egyptology intrigues me too! Lest anyone think that all I did was copy and paste from Wikipedia, though (which is…pretty much exactly what I did), I highly suggest looking into a few select sentences in that bio, if you haven’t already…
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 1:16:50 GMT
LOL! This made me laugh. My recap for Vassaggo is now 100% true! Of course anyone who didn't read my post there won't get the joke. Seriously though, I'm really into ancient Egyptian history. I could literally tell you everything there is to know about this pharaoh and every other pharaoh of the 18th dynasty! Ah, that I would have never guessed, mon vieux—not that I’m criticizing, as Egyptology intrigues me too! Lest anyone think that all I did was copy and paste from Wikipedia, though (which is…pretty much exactly what I did), I highly suggest looking into a few select sentences in that bio, if you haven’t already… "Formersamhdm XI" 😏 Apparently Amenhotep III embraced the wondrousness of the New Kingdom. He was not ashamed of hierogliphics!
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 23, 2018 16:00:14 GMT
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 23, 2018 16:01:12 GMT
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 23, 2018 16:03:20 GMT
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 23, 2018 16:05:47 GMT
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 23, 2018 16:06:09 GMT
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Post by Vassaggo on Jun 23, 2018 16:09:50 GMT
all the Peanuts dancing are weird looking but dudeman up front always cracks me up.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jun 23, 2018 19:18:29 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jun 28, 2018 15:38:00 GMT
As if I needed another reason to love this board. ::grouphug::
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Jun 28, 2018 16:59:39 GMT
The association between Amenhotep III and broken-record intellect of formersam eludes me, insike joke much.
Anyway, Amenhotep's son Akhenaten or Echnaton (if you prefer the Hellenist or Latin denomination) was a interesting guy, who essentially invented monotheism and morbid art, and was punished for it Damnatio memoriae . He had a very hot wife Nofretete/Neferitite too. That's a guy to remember.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 10, 2018 11:40:05 GMT
This week thread is from sal!
And it's a educational one as well!
GET U SOMR KNOWLEDGE!!!111
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 10, 2018 12:34:18 GMT
This one? This one, of all threads? Oy vey! As if LordDeathMan needed more ammunition in his attempt to boot me out of here for off-topicness. But I’ll tell ya what, Hauntedknight87, it was a shock—with one of my own threads! Praise and glory be to Amenhotep III, peace be upon him! Now where’s Sam-I-am when you need him?
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 10, 2018 12:39:02 GMT
This one? This one, of all threads? Oy vey! As if LordDeathMan needed more ammunition in his attempt to boot me out of her for off-topicness. But I’ll tell ya what, Hauntedknight87 , it was a shock—with one of my own threads! Praise and glory be to Amenhotep III, peace be upon him! Now where’s Sam-I-am when you need him? I picked it because of the following reasons: I like it and I was drunk when I bookmark it.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 10, 2018 12:39:45 GMT
This one? This one, of all threads? Oy vey! As if LordDeathMan needed more ammunition in his attempt to boot me out of her for off-topicness. But I’ll tell ya what, Hauntedknight87 , it was a shock—with one of my own threads! Praise and glory be to Amenhotep III, peace be upon him! Now where’s Sam-I-am when you need him? I picked it because of the following reasons: I like it and I was drunk when I bookmark it. That’s apropos for this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 20:07:42 GMT
The association between Amenhotep III and broken-record intellect of formersam eludes me, insike joke much.
Anyway, Amenhotep's son Akhenaten or Echnaton (if you prefer the Hellenist or Latin denomination) was a interesting guy, who essentially invented monotheism and morbid art, and was punished for it Damnatio memoriae . He had a very hot wife Nofretete/Neferitite too. That's a guy to remember.
Akhenaten is my favorite historical figure. Everything about him is fascinating.
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