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Encyclopedia > Amenemhet III


Amenemhat III in hieroglyphs
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Amenemhat III (1807-1797 BC) was a Egypt. He ruled from 1859 BC to 1814 BC, and is regarded as being the greatest monarch of the Middle Kingdom. His mortuary temple at Hawara (near the Fayum) is accompanied by a pyramid and was known to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus as the "Labyrinth." The king also started construction of a pyramid at Dahshur but this was abandoned.


The king's pyramid at Hawara contained some of the most complex security features of any found in Egypt and is perhaps the only one to come close to the sort of tricks Hollywood associates with such structures. Nevertheless the king's burial, alongside his daughter Neferu-Ptah, was robbed in antiquity.


External link

  • Amenemhat (III) Nimaatre (http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/digital_egypt/chronology/amenemhatIII.html)


Preceded by:
Senusret III		 Pharaoh of Egypt
Twelfth Dynasty		 Succeeded by:
Amenemhat IV





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Egypt: Amenemhet III, the 6th Ruler of Egypt's 12th Dynasty (0 words)
Amenemhet III was the son of Senusret III and the last great ruler of the Middle Kingdom.
Amenemhet III appears to have shared the throne with is father as co-regent for at least a while before the death of his father.
Amenemhet III was the 6th ruler of the 12th Dynasty, and may have reigned for as long as 45 years.
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Amenemhet III was handed a peaceful reign, his father Sesostris III had given him a land on good diplomatic terms with her northern neighbours, Nubia firmly under Egypt's control and the power of the Nomarchs finally ended.
Amenemhet III also built temples at the Faiyum to the god Sobek at Shedet / Crocodilopolis (Kiman Faris), and a temple to the cobra goddess Renenutet at Medinet Maadi.
His principal wife was Aat, her tomb was discovered in Amenemhet III's first pyramid at Dahshur (the king abandoned this pyramid for his own burial due to major structural problems discovered while the pyramid was still being built).
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