Thutmose III, the legendary Pharaoh

Thutmose III (1425 B.C.) the legendary Pharaoh. The sixteenth pharaohs of the 18th dynasty, Egypt's greatest ruler and one of the most powerful emperors in history.

Thutmose II died, leaving the throne to his son Thutmose III, who was only six years old. 

Hatshepsut, his aunt and his father's wife, installed herself as a will on the throne of the little king Thutmose III. 

Two years later, she installed herself as queen of the throne, and ruled for 20 years. Then she disappeared, and Thutmose III ascended his father's throne.

Thutmose military prowess.

Thutmose III had an uncanny personality and military genius unmatched by Thutmose's battlefield training in Luxor. 

The exercises gave him a solid personality and great military experience while Hatshepsut ruled. 

He cared about the army, made it regular, and provided it with knights and warships, as in his era, the old Egyptians perfected the work of building nobility and stocks that have become superfluous,

recognized by historians of our days. 

The statues of Thutmose III show us that young man with full muscles, and he had the elements of the fighter and leader. 

At the time Hatsut ruled, she pursued a peaceful policy with the Egyptian authorities in Palestine and Nubia and its neighbors. 

She was interested in the navy and was sending naval campaigns to Bont and the coast of Lebanon for trade exchange. 

As soon as Hatutmosis III ascended to the throne after the death of Hatsut, he had to regain Egyptian control of those hostile movements in order to secure the country's borders. 

These consequences made him king a legendary warrior who carried out sixteen military campaigns on Asia (the region of Syria and Palestine) able to prove his influence there, as the influence of Egypt even the Nubian countries in the south proved. 

The Emir of the city of Kadesh in Syria led an alliance of 23 Asian princes from the Levant against Egypt. 

It was expected that Thutmose III would support his defenses on the Egyptian border near Sinai. However, 

Thutmose decided to go to his huge armies to confront these armies in their lands as part of a plan to expand the Egyptian Empire to the fullest extent possible and secure borders against the armies of harassers.

Battle of Kadesh.

Tuthmosis trained the best training, divided his army into two wings and heart, and used previously unknown military tactics and maneuvers, fort and fort construction. 

Then he stood on top of his army of Kantara and traveled 150 miles (241.4 km) in 10 days, and then another 80 miles (128.75 km), in 11 days, 

Thutmose III had a war council with his officers after learning that the Emir of Kadesh had come to the city of Megiddo and had gathered around him 2330030 soldiers. 

There were three ways to get to Megiddo, two of them orbiting the foot of Mount Carmel, and the third is a narrow corridor, but it reaches directly to Megiddo. 

Thutmose's view is that the army will pass through the third lane in an adventure that later flipped the balance of the battle and was considered one of the most dangerous military adventures in the old world.

To the surprise of the enemy, the passage required Egyptian soldiers to carry their war gear, military vehicles, and horses, disassembling military vehicles to make it easier to carry, sneaking through the narrow hallway in small groups. 

It was a great risk for the army to take Thutmose III on this route to surprise the enemy encamping on the next side of the corridor.

At the end of two roads, enemy forces were positioned, thinking the Egyptian army would come from either or both. 

At dawn the next day, King Thutmose III ordered the army to reassemble military vehicles and prepare for a surprise attack. 

And his mouth was smitten, and their head in the forefront was half a circle over Megiddo: and it was a surprise for them to find the Egyptians attacking them; 

And they were troubled, and parted from the city, and fled, leaving behind their large cars, and their camp full of spoils, to enter into the fenced city. 

Because of the Egyptian army's preoccupation with collecting loot, Asians fled to the city and took shelter there. 

The consequence of the army's failure to collect the gains was that they could eliminate the enemy's armies and achieve complete victory. 

Thutmose III had to besiege Megiddo for seven long months, until the princes surrendered and sent their sons carrying weapons to King Thutmose III.

One of the ancient historians in Ancient Egypt confirms in his texts the power of Egypt in the era of Thutmose III saying, 

"There is no power in the land that can confront the Egyptian army, which received superior military training and won under the leadership of a genius king, the great Pharaoh of Egypt, Thutmose III."

The Egyptian army and King Thutmose III returned to Egypt with a number of princes to live in Egypt under the control of the Egyptians so that the princes would not dare to rebel again.

Thutmose III was interested in the creation of a powerful naval fleet that could control many Mediterranean islands, such as Cyprus, and also exert influence on the Phoenician coast (the coasts of Lebanon and Palestine now). 

Thus, he was the first to set up the oldest empire known in history, extending from the upper Euphrates northward to the fourth waterfall on the Nile River southward. 

Egypt has become the most powerful and richest empire in the world, in which Egyptians have lived through the pinnacle of their glory and strength.

Thutmose III is called "the father of the empires" and is also called "the Nabuluion of the East” and “the first emperor in history". 

It is considered a brilliant genius in military history throughout the ages. Its military plans are studied in many military colleges and institutes worldwide : 

He was the first to divide the army into the heart and wings, and the British Empire used many of its plans in its battles, especially what Lord Allenby did in his battles against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. 

This wise policy had a bearing on the consolidation of the Egyptian Empire for a century and the spread of Egyptian culture there.

It can be concluded that the campaign of Thutmose I (1492-1504 BC) against Syria is the beginning of the confrontation between Pharaonic Egypt and the Kingdom of Al-Matetania, and that it even set up a memorial to it west of the Euphrates on the Syrian Island,

Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 BC) followed up with campaigns.

However, it is not clear what role Mitani played in the Syrian alliance led by the king of Kedesh in the 1456 B.C. battle against Egyptian King Tuthmosis III. 

However, it is clear that the old Egyptian-Yemeni-Syrian confrontations took place in 1446 B.C. when the two armies met west of Aleppo.

It was not easy for the Egyptian army to control the whole west and north of the Fertile Crescent, and it had set up military patrols in some cities, such as Jubail, but this did not stop the revolution of some cities in the Canaanite coast. 

In addition, Mitani's influence increased in the entire north of the Fertile Crescent. Ugarit was one of the Meitani mini-states at some times, and some former states of the Hittite Court joined Methana at the end of the fifteenth century BC. 

Methane had subjected Assyria and formed an alliance with the Babylonian state.

Later on, relations between Egypt and Yemen began to improve in the late Thutmose III era, and these good relations continued. 

Witness the intermarriages between the kings of Egypt and the daughters of the princes of Syria and the messages exchanged between Tiba and Oshokanu/Ashukani (Syria) in the letters of Tel al-Amarna, as in a letter from the King Hottarna II of Meitani to Egyptian King Amenhotep III. 

The kings of Syria and the kings of Yemen respected the Egyptian knowledge of medicine and treatment, and they often appealed to Egypt's Pharaoh to send them doctors to treat their wives.
His political prowess.

Thutmose III called upon the Asian regional princes to the good of the Egyptian capital at that time, so that they may learn Egyptian customs and traditions and educate them with Egyptian culture and instill in them the love of Egypt. 

Even if they returned to their countries and assumed power, they would become his loyal followers. The war on Egypt certainly cannot be considered.

Some historians doubt that this is Pharaoh, the departure of the Jews from Egypt, the building of Israel, based on a paragraph in the Torah that says that King Solomon built the house of the Lord in the year 480, 

From the departure of the Israeli sons from Egypt, and the fourth year of his rule, and that it was the fourth year of Solomon's rule, and that it added 480 years, 

This will lead us to the end of the date of Thutmose III's rule, but this assumption is doubtful, given that this number differs in versions of the Torah translations. 

Some even make this period 500 years, which indicates that this number was a guess by the Torah writers.[1] King Solomon ruled Palestine between 970 and 928 BC.

His architectural works.

He built the giant gates of Sixth and Seventh, and the celebration hall at the Temple of Karnak. He completed the construction of the Temple of Habo, which Hatshepsut started. 

He built a temple for Petah in his homeland in Manf. The temple contains three rooms: the first for Ptah, the second for Hirubah, and the third for Hatah. 

It has a statue with its head of a lioness atop a disk of the sun, and it has a temple in ancient times, and it erected a temple in the two cities of the god Satt. It also has ruins in Kom Ombo, Edfo, Ain Shams, and Irmn.

Thutmose III has established at least seven series, most of which are now located in a number of world capitals. 

These include the Musalah in London (one of two series set up by Thutmose III in front of the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis). 

A Greek engineer named Bentius moved them to Alexandria to lay before the Temple of Isis, but did not It arrived in London only in 1878, where it was lying on the ground all the time because it could not be transported until it could be carried to cover the costs of transporting Sir Arzems Walsen. 

It was made for a special ship to transport it. The ship on its way back was sunk by a storm in the Bay of Biscay but the ship was rescued and reached safe.

It is worth mentioning that this particular obelisk was struck by bomb fragments during the Second World War on the Thames, known as the Cleopatra needle, which Thutmose had erected in front of the Temple of EIN Shams. 

Another obelisk, currently in Istanbul, is one of two series he set up in front of the seventh edifice (great gate) of the Temple of Karnak. 

Originally it was much longer than any existing obelisk.

He has another obelisk that exists in New York, which Thutmose raised in front of the Temple of the Sun. 

This obelisk, the London House of Twins, is now in Central Park. In his late days, Thutmose ordered that an obelisk be erected in front of the eighth edifice of the Temple of Karnak, but was not completed because of his death,

It was left in her place for 35 years, until Thutmose IV found her and set her up in the place where it was being prepared. 

It is now in Rome, in front of the St. John's Church in Laetienne, The Great Constantine of the Roman state transferred this 455-ton obelisk to Alexandria in 330 AD to send it to Byzantium to beautify his new capital. 

It, but failed to remain in 27 years His son, Constantinos, moved her to Rome, and set her foot in Maxima Square, in 1587, when she was found broken into three pieces, which was repaired and restored by Domenico Fontana at the order of Pope Sixtus V. 

It also ordered the cross to be lifted in the belief that this was the symbol of the triumph of Christianity over paganism.

Emperor's Pharaoh.

Thutmose III has established the oldest empire in history. It is the farthest point in Egypt's history.

The borders of Egypt reached the Euphrates River, Syria to the east, Libya to the west, the coasts of Phoenicia and Cyprus to the north, to the south of the Nile, until the fourth or fourth generals, and the administration in his era was strong and highly competent. 

Tuthmosis gave each region a self-governing status following the throne, due to the expansion of the empire, the difference of races, and the divergence of customs and laws from one region to another

graveyard.

Thutmose, 82, died after serving 54 years, according to the text of the grants... From the first year until the 54th year, in the third month of winter, the last day of the reign of His Excellency the King,

"From Khabar Ra," the King of Northern and Southern Egypt... After his death, mourning and royal burial were held, followed by all Egyptians. 

This was the largest funeral in ancient history, and he was buried in a cemetery in the Valley of the Kings, which he had prepared for himself. 

The tomb is No. 34, one of the first kings to build tombs for themselves in the Valley of the Kings.

His tomb was discovered in 1898 by the tomb of Victor Lorrette and found She was looted and did not have the mummy found in the monastery in 1881. 

One of his most famous sayings is by his famous minister, Rahimi Ra'a, "God does not approve of bias (corruption). 

Be vigilant. 

The position of Minister is the mainstay of the whole earth. The Minister does not have to enslave people. Act fairly. Love abhors God… Be fair to whom you know and whom you don't know...”.

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