Amenhotep III

In fact, the title God's Wife of Amun was applied to the sisters of kings, whom they had begun to take as their wives, or to their mothers.

Around 1500 BCE, Amos's son, Amenhotep, which means Amun is satisfied, extended the southern border even farther into the territory of the Kingdom of Kush, which had attacked southern Egypt in the past, and he may have had some encounters with Mitanni in Syria.

Amenhotep was followed in 1493 by one of his generals, who took the name Thutmose I.

The Kushites immediately rebelled, and in response Thutmose invaded, killed the king, and made Kush a permanent part of his empire.

He also campaigned against the cities of Syria, and reached the city of Carchemish across the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia.

Trade in luxury goods also increased under the new kingdom with Mycenaean Greece, Phoenicia, and the island of Crete, and the Egyptian fleet was used to facilitate these exchanges.

Greece, for example, supplied silver and works of art, and Egyptian pottery began to reflect Greek designs.

The country's wealth, as expressed in its building projects, and the quality of its decorative objects, reached its peak during the reign of Amenhotep III in the first half of the 14th century.

Can you explain what the Amarna letters are for people that are not familiar?

It's a series of 382 letters written in the late Bronze Age during the reigns of Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV.

So, it's the mid-18th dynasty, and these are the Canaanite city rulers who are screaming to Pharaoh that their sites are being overrun by a group of people called the Habiru who are taking over everything.

And of course, this is written at the exact same time, according to my chronology, you probably are aware that I wrote chapter one in the book, The Five Views on the Exodus, published by Zondervan, according to what I would consider to be the biblical chronology, that synchronizes perfectly with that.

Yeah.

And then, but I think, you know, Amenhotep the third, which is the, the, the father of Akhenaten, I think he knew about it and he talked about it to his family and everything else, but he was, he didn't want to go against like create a massive problem.

But then Akhenaten's like, no, well, now I'm in power and I'm just going to completely come out with the truth that the Aten is the one God of this world.

And so we're going to worship the Aten.

You didn't have to get the call to get a sundial? You didn't have to get the call from Switzerland somewhere to get a sundial, no.

In around 1400 BC, the pharaoh Amenhotep used a water-based clock and what that allowed them to do was to be able to understand that same concept of time during night as well as during times of

really bad weather oh yeah because if you don't have the sun all of a sudden you don't know

so I guess this is the first known complication which no doubt tripled the price and caused incredible consumer demand perpetual water clock amazingly this feature was actually useful as compared to the complications that we today spend so much money on However, scientists do consider both the very ancient pyramids and places such as Stonehenge to be themselves built for the purpose of tracking time.

The remaining twelve are good." "How do you mean, good? Why is one of these things valuable and another so much punk? They all look alike to me." And then the expert talked to Mr.

Peters for nearly two hours about the New Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, Osiris, Ammon, Mut, Babastis, Dynasties, Cheops, the Hyksos Kings, Cylinders, Beezles, Amenophis III, Queen Tiya, the Princess Gilakippa of Mitanni, the Lake of Zeruki, Necralis, and the Book of the Dead.

He did it with a relish.

He liked to do it.

Mr. Peters, in his character of showman, threw himself into his work with even more than his customary energy.

His flow of speech never faltered.

He spoke of the New Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, Osiris and Ammon, waxed eloquent concerning Mutt, Babastus, Cheops, the Hyksos kings, cylinders, bezels, and Amenophis III, and became at times almost lyrical when touching on Queen Tiya, the Princess Gilakipa of Mitanni, the Lake of Saruki, Necratus, and the Book of the Dead.

Time slid by.

Hmm.

Old Amenhotep is dead, they say, and his son is king.

What's his name?

If you would listen, Sister Clipper, you would know.

Life makes a joke of us beggars.

[laughs] Life makes us die.

Yes, I watched them bury the Pharaoh Amenhotep.

They didn't see me.