Amenemhat III

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Amenemhat III

Amenemhat III, also spelled Amenemhet III (c. 1860-1814 BC), was a pharaoh

Pharaoh

Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt, only during the New Kingdom, specifically, during the middle of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt....
of the Twelfth Dynasty

Twelfth dynasty of Egypt

The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
of Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
. He ruled from ca.1860 BC to ca.1814 BC, the latest known date being found in a papyrus

Papyrus

Papyrus is a thick paper material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland Cyperaceae that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....
dated to Regnal Year 46, I Akhet 22 of his rule. He is regarded as the greatest monarch of the Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom of Egypt

The middle kingdom is the period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt to the end of the Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt, roughly between 2040 BC and 1640 BC....
. He may have had a long coregency (of 20 years) with his father, Senusret III

Senusret III

Khakhaure Senusret III was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1839 BC, and was the fifth monarch of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
. 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.

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Amenemhat III, also spelled Amenemhet III (c. 1860-1814 BC), was a pharaoh

Pharaoh

Twelfth dynasty of Egypt

The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
of Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Papyrus

Middle Kingdom of Egypt

Senusret III

Sobekneferu

Sobekneferu was an ancient Egypt female pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt. Her name meant "the beauties of Sobek." She was the daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat III....
, 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."

He built a first pyramid

Pyramid

A pyramid is a building where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a point. The base of pyramids are usually quadrilateral or trilateral , meaning that a pyramid usually has four or five faces....
at Dahshur

Dahshur

Dahshur , is a royal necropolis located in the desert on the west bank of the Nile approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo. It is known chiefly for several pyramids, two of which are among the oldest, largest and best preserved in Egypt....
(the so-called "Black Pyramid

Black Pyramid

King Amenemhat III built the Black pyramid during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt . It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original eleven pyramids at Dahshur in Egypt....
") but there were building problems and this was abandoned. Around Year 15 of his reign the king decided to build a new pyramid at Hawara

Hawara

Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis at the entrance to the depression of the Al Fayyum oasis....
. The pyramid at Dahshur was used as burial ground for several royal women.

His mortuary temple at Hawara

Hawara

Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis at the entrance to the depression of the Al Fayyum oasis....
(near the Fayum), is accompanied by a pyramid

Egyptian pyramids

File:All Gizah Pyramids.jpgFile:EgyptianPyramidsandSphinx2006.jpgThe Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid shaped masonry structures located in Egypt....
and was known to Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
and Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus , was a Roman Greece historian who flourished in the 1st century BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agira in Sicily ....
as the "Labyrinth

Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos....
." Strabo

Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
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, Neferuptah, was buried in a separate pyramid (discovered in 1956) 2km southwest of the king's.

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus , is named after Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scotland antiquarian, who purchased the papyrus in 1858 in Luxor, Egypt; it was apparently found during illegal excavations in or near the Ramesseum....
is thought to have been originally composed during Amenemhat's time.

Other names:

Ammenemes
Lamares, Ameres (According to Manetho
Manetho

Manetho was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos who lived during the Ptolemaic dynasty, ca. 3rd century BC. Manetho wrote the Aegyptiaca ....
)
Moeris

Amenemhat III

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