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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mena7: [QB] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/StatueOfHoremhebAndTheGodHorus-DetailOfHoremheb01_KunsthistorischesMuseum_Nov13-10.jpg/640px-StatueOfHoremhebAndTheGodHorus-DetailOfHoremheb01_KunsthistorischesMuseum_Nov13-10.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Horemheb [IMG]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5171/5477989770_c6240e5924_z.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Horemheb [IMG]http://s2.hubimg.com/u/3221499_f260.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Horemheb [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Saqq_Horemheb_07.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Horemheb [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/GD-EG-Louxor-107.JPG/640px-GD-EG-Louxor-107.JPG[/IMG] Pharaoh Horemheb Horemheb (sometimes spelled Horemhab or Haremhab and meaning Horus is in Jubilation) was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty from either 1319 BC to late 1292 BC,[1] or 1306 to late 1292 BC (if he ruled for 14 years) although he was not related to the preceding royal family and is believed to have been of common birth. Before he became pharaoh, Horemheb was the commander in chief of the army under the reigns of Tutankamun and Ay. After his accession to the throne, he reformed the state and it was under his reign that official action against the preceding Amarna rulers began. Horemheb demolished monuments of Akhenaten, reusing their remains in his own building projects, and usurped monuments of Tutankhamun and Ay. Horemheb presumably remained childless since he appointed his vizier Paramesse as his successor, who would assume the throne as Ramesses I. The best known member of the 18th Dynasty of Egyptian Pharaohs is Tutankhamun, who's short reign lasted from 1334 - 1325 BC. Despite the spectacular contents of his tomb, discovered on November 22, 1922, little else is known about his boy king, and even is exact parentage is not certain. He certainly died young, probably in the 9th year of his reign, and an examination of his mummy shows a suspicious sliver of bone in the upper part of his head. Could the boy king have been murdered? If so, suspicion falls very heavily on his successor, the Pharaoh Horemheb. After a brief reign by an old man called Ay, Horemheb saw his chance and seized it. He had been the Great Commander of the Army under the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and had been Tutankhamun's King's Deputy, a position of high rank. Horemheb declared himself king in 1321 BC, married the sister of Nefertiti and promptly began eliminating all traces of Tutankhamun and the heretical worship of Aten, a practice begun by Tutankhamun's possible father, Akhenaten. He reopened all the old temples and restored the priesthood of Amun, taking them from the ranks of the army, where he still had considerable influence. He also split up the army into a northern and southern command, hence reducing any possibility of a counter-coup against his reign. He even took over all the monuments to Ay and Tutankhamun and totally destroyed the temples to Aten, which he hated. He took over the mortuary temple of Ay and began dating his reign from the death of Amenhotep III (one of the most successful, prosperous and stable Pharaohs 1386 - 1349 BC). His actual reign was about 30 years, mostly spent consolidating his country after the religious upheavals of the previous Pharaohs, and in preparing his own tomb in the Valley of the Kings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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