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Name |
Akheperenre Thutmosis II King of Egypt |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1504 BC |
Person ID |
I154359 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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Notes |
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http://www.neferchichi.com/tuthmosis2.html
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Neferchichi's Tomb, Pharaohs
http://www.neferchichi.com/pharaohs.html
Tuthmosis II
Birth name: Tuthmosis ("Born of the God Thoth")
Throne name: Akheperenre ("Great is the form of Re")
Rule: 1518 - 1504 BC (4th king of the 18th dynasty, New Kingdom)
Noteworthy relatives: Tuthmosis I (father), Hatshepsut(half-sister/wife), Tuthmosis III (son)
Tuthmosis II was the half-royal son of Tuthmosis I and a lesser queennamed Mutnefert. He had two half-brothers (Wadjmose and Amenmose) whosemother was Queen Ahmose, the "great royal wife." It was Wadjmose andAmenmose who were in line to inherit the throne, not Tuthmosis II. Butthey both died before getting a turn, leaving him as the only male heir.
He also had a half-sister, Hatshepsut, whose parents were Tuthmosis I andQueen Ahmose. Hatshepsut was therefore 100% royal. Since Tuthmosis II wasonly half as royal, he married her to strengthen his connection to thethrone. Tuthmosis II and Hatshepsut had a daughter (Neferure) but nosons, although he did have a son (Tuthmosis III) with a harem girl.
Tuthmosis II was nowhere near as great a king as his father. He was frailand sickly and died when he was in his early thirties. What adisappointment!
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 ofAmenhotep II) to keep them safe. These hidden royals were nowhere to befound for almost 2,000 years: in 1881, the 40 mummies in the Deirel-Bahari location were found; then in 1898 the tomb of Amenhotep II withits additional 16 mummies was discovered. Tuthmosis II was in the 1881cache, and although his mummy has been found, his own original tomb isstill undiscovered!
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