Amenhotep II
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Amenhotep II is the seventh among the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He is the son of King Thutmose III and his wife, Queen Meret-Ra Hatshepsut. He attacked the cave dwellers and defeated Kush and wiped out its country. He was the shield of Great Egypt and the protector of its soldiers. This is what was found engraved on his bow.
He assumed power after the death of his father, Thutmose III. Like his father, he was a strong, athletic king who was fond of hunting.
We find him preserving the borders of the empire that his father left him, so he went out in the second year of his rule to discipline the rebellious states in Asia and returned to Thebes with ninety thousand Asian prisoners as laborers, after killing 8 of the princes of these regions.
He also makes a campaign to the south and defeats the rebellion that occurred there. He even returns with the body of one of the Nubian chiefs on the mast of his ship, hanging upside down and crucified, which is a new type of brutality that we have not seen among the kings who preceded him.
Throughout his reign, he continued to secure Egypt's eastern borders, launching campaigns in the seventh and ninth years to secure the borders of the Egyptian Empire from the northeast.
He ruled for approximately 27 years and is believed to have ruled from 1427 to 1401 BC.
Amenhotep II was passionate about sports. He was a strong athlete and was good at riding and handling horses. He saw war as a sport, and his mummy indicates that he was muscular and had strong forearms. Archery was a lifelong hobby that accompanied Amenhotep II.
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