The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . g. 6. Eighteenth Dynasty. (1) Ahmes. TheHyksos were driven out by Ahmes, the first kingof the eighteenth dynasty. Ahmes reigned twenty-two years and married Ahmes Neftari, a negress,who ruled some time after his death. The sonof these rulers, Amenhotep, ruled eleven years. (2) Queen Hatasu. Then came Thothmes I,who associated his beautiful and powerful daugh-ter Hatasu, or Hashop, with h
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . g. 6. Eighteenth Dynasty. (1) Ahmes. TheHyksos were driven out by Ahmes, the first kingof the eighteenth dynasty. Ahmes reigned twenty-two years and married Ahmes Neftari, a negress,who ruled some time after his death. The sonof these rulers, Amenhotep, ruled eleven years. (2) Queen Hatasu. Then came Thothmes I,who associated his beautiful and powerful daugh-ter Hatasu, or Hashop, with him. She reignedfor some years either alone or with her brother,Thothmes II. After his death Hatasu adoptedthe masculine garb and gave orders that her broth-ers name be erased from all monumental inscrip-tions. She ordered two granite obelisks with shining metal tops to be erected, and they were tostand forever (to record her works) before thegate of her father, Thothmes I. (3) Thothmes III. She was also associatedwith her brother Thothmes III, and the same fatebefell her as her brother Thothmes II. Her namewas carefully chiseled out of all inscriptions. AfterHatasus death Thothmes III was called Bust of Thothmes III. Nations hastened to do him honor. Syria, Ethiopiaand Phoenicia paid immense tribute. He it waswho erected and inscribed with his own name theobelisk known as Cleopatras Needle, which isnow in Central Park, New York City. He reignedfifty-four years. Then came Amenhotep II andThothmes IV. (4) Amenhotep III, ;n whose reign the artswere in greatest perfection, followed. He builtthe great statues of Memnon before the palaceof Luxor. Tradition says one of these statues al-ways sang when the suns rays shone upon it atdawn. Amenhotep is famous as having intro-duced the worship of the suns disk and changedhis name from Amenhotep to Khu-en aten—thatis—the glory of the disk. He founded a cityTel-el-Amana (see Tell Amarna), where he builta great temple in worship
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