Photographs By Yahia Rady
Amenhotep III (sometimes read as Amenophis III; meaning
Amun is Satisfied) was the ninth
pharaoh of the
Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled
Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC or June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC
after his father
Thutmose IV died. Amenhotep III was the son of Thutmose by
Mutemwia, a minor wife of Amenhotep's father.
His lengthy reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendour, when Egypt reached the peak of her artistic and international power. When he died (probably in the 39th year of his reign), his son reigned as
Amenhotep IV, later changing his royal name to Akhenaten.
