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Amenhotep III or Amenophis III meaning Amun is Satisfied.
He was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.He ruled Egypt from 1386 to 1349 BC or 1388 BC to 1351 BC,after his father Thutmose IV died.
His reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendour.
During his period Egypt reached the peak of her artistic and international power.
When he died, his son initially ruled as Amenhotep IV, but later changed his own royal name to Akhenaten. 


His Family
Amenhotep III was the father of two sons with his Great Royal Wife Tiye ,Crown Prince Thutmose, who died before his father, and her second son, Akhenaten,who followed him to the throne,Amenhotep III also may have been the father of a third child—called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten. Amenhotep III and Tiye may also have had four daughters: Sitamun, Henuttaneb, Isis or Iset, and Nebetah.


 Amenhotep III is known to have married several foreign women:

• Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni [ Mitanni was a loosely organized Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and south-east Anatolia]. 
• Tadukhepa, the daughter of his ally Tushratta of Mitanni .
• A daughter of Kurigalzu, king of Babylon[ was an ancient city-state the remains of which are found in Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad.].
• A daughter of Kadashman-Enlil, king of Babylon .
• A daughter of Tarhundaradu, ruler of Arzawa [ in Western Anatolia].

  
His life 
Amenhotep III characterized by having the most surviving statues of any Egyptian pharaoh. Another  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 to Nubia,their long inscribed texts extol the accomplishments of the pharaoh. 123 of these commemorative scarabs record the large number of lions (either 102 or 110 ) that Amenhotep III killed "with his own arrows" from his first regnal year up to his tenth year, five other scarabs state that the foreign princess who would become a wife to him, Gilukhepa[ Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni ], arrived in Egypt with a retinue of 317 women. She was the first of many such princesses who would enter the pharaoh's household.
Another eleven scarabs record the excavation of an artificial lake he had built for his royal wife, Queen Tiye, in his eleventh regnal year.
Amenhotep appears to have been crowned while still a child, perhaps between the ages of 6 and 12.He married Tiye two years later and she lived twelve years after his death.  

His Final years 
In his final years he suffered from arthritis and became obese .
  It has generally been assumed that Amenhotep requested and received from his father-in-law Tushratta of Mitanni, a statue of Ishtar of Nineveh [a healing goddess ]in order to cure him of his various ailments which included painful abscesses in his teeth .

His Death 
 An examination of his mummy concluded that the pharaoh was aged between forty and fifty years old at death.Amenhotep III was buried in the Western Valley of the Valley of the Kings.


His Monuments 

• Amenhotep III built extensively at the temple of Karnak including the Luxor temple. 
• Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III.The statue is thought to have been erected by King Amenhotep III, one of the huge number of statues that he set up to himself in Thebes. [ The statue in the picture up]. 
• Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III. 
• The two Colossi of Memnon , which still stand at his mortuary temple at Kom el-Hitan. are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years (since 1350 BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. 

Colossi of Memnon  WILL BE MY COMING POST .

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For our picture,again you can see the picture very pale.I had manipulated the photo of the Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III, to show its color . I added also animation for the name it will be more clear if you open the picture in a new page. Let's start.

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• Duplicate the layer . 
• Merge the two layers. 
• Add canvas in a new layer. 
• Add the frame.

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