Person1425 BC
Thutmose III
Also called: Thutmosis III, Tuthmosis III
Eighteenth-Dynasty pharaoh of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1479–1425 BC) whose campaigns extended Egyptian power through Syria to the Euphrates
Also called: Thutmosis III, Tuthmosis III
Eighteenth-Dynasty pharaoh of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1479–1425 BC) whose campaigns extended Egyptian power through Syria to the Euphrates
Having expelled the Hyksos, Egypt entered the New Kingdom. Thutmose III campaigned through Syria and Palestine to the Euphrates, carrying Egyptian power to its widest extent.
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