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Name |
Thutmosis IV Pharaoh of Egypt |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1408 BC |
Person ID |
I154349 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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http://www.neferchichi.com/tuthmosis4.html
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Neferchichi's Tomb, Pharaohs
http://www.neferchichi.com/pharaohs.html
Tuthmosis IV
Birth name: Tuthmosis ("Born of the God Thoth")
Throne name: Menkheperure ("Everlasting are the Manifestations of Re")
Rule: 1419 - 1386 BC (8th king of the 18th dynasty, New Kingdom)
Noteworthy relatives: Amenhotep II (father), Tuthmosis III (grandfather),Amenhotep III (son)
By the time Tuthmosis IV became pharaoh, the Great Sphinx in front ofKhafre's pyramid at Giza was already more than 1,000 years old and wasburied up to its neck in the shifting sands of the desert. There had beenmany attempts to dig it up-- some successful, some not (it's unburiednow, of course, and has been so since 1926). The first person to clearaway the sand was Tuthmosis IV. He claimed that he was out hunting in thedesert and took a nap in the shadow of the Sphinx's head (which wouldhave been the only part sticking out of the sand). While Tuthmosis wassleeping, the Sphinx came to him in a dream and promised Tuthmosis thathe would become pharaoh if he cleared away the sand. Digging startedimmediately and sure enough Tuthmosis IV became pharaoh in 1419 BC. Acarved monument known as the Dream Stele between the Sphinx's pawscommemorates the "rescue
During the New Kingdom, royal tombs were built high in the cliffs ofUpper Egypt in a spot commonly called "The Valley of the Kings." Theintention was to make the tombs as inaccessible to grave robbers aspossible... although they got robbed anyway. Around 1000 BC, a group ofpriests gathered up all the royal mummies and stored them in two secret"mummy caches" (one near Deir el-Bahari, and the other in the tomb ofTuthmosis IV's father, Amenhotep II) to keep them safe. These hiddenroyals were nowhere to be found for almost 2,000 years: in 1881, the 40mummies in the Deir el-Bahari location were found. Then in 1898 the tombof Amenhotep II with its additional 16 mummies was discovered. This iswhere Tuthmosis IV was found- in his father's tomb.
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