King Thutmose I, is sometimes referred to by the title Khneferu, which means appearance and perfection. Thutmose I is known as Mephres, which means the Spirit of Ra. He was the third pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt He ruled Egypt from 1506 to 1493 BC.
His father was Amenhotep I. His mother, Senseneb, was not a member of the royal family and was a commoner, Queen Ahmose, the eldest royal wife of Thutmose. She married Thutmose to ensure the succession of Thutmose’s eldest son from Queen Ahmose, Amenemes, who was born long before Thutmose’s coronation. He and Ahmose had two daughters; Hatshepsut and Nephropiti. He had a secondary wife, Muntafret, who was the sister of his main wife, Ahmose.
Thutmose I’s rule lasted 12 years and 9 months There is no doubt about this that it is present in two inscriptions from the eighth and ninth years of his reign bearing his cartouche, which was found engraved on a stone block in Karnak. Accordingly, it indicates that Thutmose ruled from 1506 or 1504 BC to 1493 BC.
He advanced across the Nile River and participated in the battle, killing the Nubian king there After that battle, he supervised a second campaign against Nubia in his third year He ordered the digging of a canal at the First Cataract, built magically by Sesostris III of the Twelfth Dynasty to facilitate the exit from Egypt. This facilitated the integration of Nubia into the Egyptian Empire. King Thutmose of Egypt established a fortress at Tombos, which is close to the Third Cataract, in the second year of his reign. Which led to the extension of the Egyptian military presence, He was facing another military threat, another rebellion by Nubia in his fourth year His influence expanded to the south He initiated several projects that effectively ended Nubia’s independence.
His campaign in Syria began at the beginning of his second year, and it was the first campaign of its kind, as no Egyptian pharaoh had ever undertaken campaigns to the north. Then he returned to Egypt and celebrated his victory by hunting elephants in Syria The Euphrates River is considered the most important and first crossing that the ancient Egyptians crossed, and the king’s campaigns led to the destruction of many sites in Palestine.
He expanded the temple of Sesostris III and Khnum
The most effective of all his actions was the appointment of a man named Ture to the position of Viceroy of Kush, also known as “the son of King Kush.”
Thutmose’s greatest construction efforts were in the Karnak Temple. He built many temples and tombs With some temples to the sun gods on the side of the road. The first person to significantly expand the temple was Tuthmosis. He built the fifth pylon along the main road of the temple. He built colossal figures wearing the Crown of Upper Egypt and the Crown of Lower Egypt Thutmose was a lover of construction and was commissioned to undertake many construction projects during his reign Undoubtedly the construction of the first undisputed excavated tomb in the Valley of the Kings He built the Hypostyle Hall, with columns made of cedar wood.
During the Twenty-first Dynasty, the mummy of Tuthmosis I was reburied during the Twenty-first Dynasty in the royal crypt in Deir el-Bahri above the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, in addition to he was buried with other New Kingdom rulers including; Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose II, Thutmose III, Ramesses I, Seti I, Ramesses II, Ramesses IX, The body, although small and emaciated, shows evidence of extraordinary muscular strength, the mummy of him had all the craniofacial characteristics common to the Nubian and Nubian populations It is possible that this mummy does not belong to King Tuthmosis I.
He was buried in Double burial with his daughter Hatshepsut The tomb of him could only have been made for Tuthmosis I. All its entrances were “closed by a solid pile of rubble and stones.” It contained fragments of stone vessels made for Hatshepsut. Before she assumed the throne, in addition to other vessels bearing the names and titles of him.
The Pharaonic king is considered the third king of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty After the death of his father, King Amenhotep I, the Pharaonic king took over the rule of ancient Egypt He certainly loved hunting elephants and animals in the forests after his military campaigns ended.
