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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mena7: [QB] [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/shurikenjay/amenemhatIII.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/amenemhetiiihead.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://euler.slu.edu/~bart/egyptianhtml/kings%20and%20Queens/Amenemhet-III-louvre.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Amenemhat_III.jpg/228px-Amenemhat_III.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://www.egyptian-museum-berlin.com/bilder/g_o_amenehet3_01.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/31000FGommpjob8steDFSABYo1_500.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/sphinx4-1.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Amenemhat_III_Altemps_Inv8607.jpg/540px-Amenemhat_III_Altemps_Inv8607.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Amenemhat III Amenemhat III, also spelled Amenemhet III was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from c.1860 BC to c.1814 BC, the highest known date being found in a papyrus dated to Regnal Year 46, I Akhet 22 of his rule.[2] His reign is regarded as the golden age of the Middle Kingdom.[3] He may have had a long coregency (of 20 years) with his father, Senusret III.[4] Towards the end of his reign he instituted a coregency with his successor Amenemhet IV, as recorded in a now damaged rock inscription at Konosso in Nubia, which equates Year 1 of Amenemhet IV to either Year 46, 47 or 48 of his reign.[5] His daughter, Sobekneferu, later succeeded Amenemhat IV, as the last ruler of the 12th Dynasty. Amenemhat III's throne name, Nimaatre, means "Belonging to the Justice of Re." His pyramids He built his first pyramid at Dahshur (the so-called "Black Pyramid"), but there were construction problems and it was abandoned.[6] Around Year 15 of his reign the king decided to build a new pyramid at Hawara, near the Faiyum.[7] The pyramid at Dahshur was used as burial ground for several royal women. The mortuary temple attached to the Hawara pyramid and may have been known to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus as the "Labyrinth".[8] Strabo praised it as a wonder of the world. 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 was robbed in antiquity. His daughter or sister, Neferuptah, was buried in a separate pyramid (discovered in 1956) 2 km southwest of the king's.[9][10] The pyramidion of Amenemhet III's pyramid tomb was found toppled from the peak of its structure and preserved relatively intact; it is today located in the Cairo Egyptian Museum The Great Canal (Mer-Wer) During his long rule Amenemhat continued the work probably started by his father to link the Fayum depression with the Nile. The area had been a mere swamp previously. A canal 16 km and 1.5 km wide was dug, known as Mer-Wer (the Great Canal); it is now known as Bahr Yussef. The banks for the central deep side were at a slope of 1:10, to allow the use of non-cohesive soil and rock fill. A dam called Ha-Uar run east-west and the canal was inclined towards the Fayum depression at the slope of 0.01 degrees. The resultant Lake Moeris was able to store 13 billion cubic meters [12] of flood water each year This immense work of civil engineering was eventually finished by his son Amenmehat IV and brought prosperity to Fayum. The area became a breadbasket for the country and continued to be used until 230 BC when the Lahun branch of the Nile silted up. After the Islamic conquest Lake Moeris was renamed Lake of Qarun and the branch of the Nile The Sea of Joseph but there is no relationship between King Amenmehat III and the Biblical or Quranic Prophet Joseph or Yussef. The vizier Kheti held this office around year 29 of king Amenemhet III's reign. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is thought to have been originally composed during Amenemhat's time.[13] The monuments of Amenemhat III are fairly numerous and of excellent quality. They include a small but well decorated temple at Medinet Maadi in the Faiyum, which he and his father dedicated to the harvest goddess Renenute [/QB][/QUOTE]
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