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Follow Egypt's imperial golden age from Ahmose and Hatshepsut through Thutmose III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun to Ramesses the Great and the Sea Peoples.

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New Kingdom · c. 1550–1069 BCE
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The New Kingdom

From Ahmose's expulsion of the Hyksos and the rise of the Eighteenth Dynasty through Hatshepsut and the empire of Thutmose III, the imperial zenith of Amenhotep III, the Amarna revolution of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, the boy-king Tutankhamun, and the Ramesside age of Ramesses the Great, Kadesh, and the Sea Peoples, to the decline at the close of the Twentieth Dynasty around 1069 BCE. Slide across the imperial golden age, when Egypt ruled from Nubia to the Euphrates.

1550 BC
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1550 BC

Eighteenth Dynasty
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    Ahmose I expels the Hyksos

    Ahmose I storms Avaris and drives the Hyksos from Egypt, reuniting the Two Lands and founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

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The New Kingdom

From Ahmose's expulsion of the Hyksos and the rise of the Eighteenth Dynasty through Hatshepsut and the empire of Thutmose III, the imperial zenith of Amenhotep III, the Amarna revolution of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, the boy-king Tutankhamun, and the Ramesside age of Ramesses the Great, Kadesh, and the Sea Peoples, to the decline at the close of the Twentieth Dynasty around 1069 BCE. Slide across the imperial golden age, when Egypt ruled from Nubia to the Euphrates.

  1. Eighteenth Dynasty

    • Ahmose I expels the Hyksos

      Ahmose I storms Avaris and drives the Hyksos from Egypt, reuniting the Two Lands and founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

  2. Eighteenth Dynasty

    • Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh

      Hatshepsut takes the full titles of pharaoh and rules for two decades of peace and prosperity, building her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari and trading with the land of Punt.

  3. Eighteenth Dynasty

    • Thutmose III and the Battle of Megiddo

      Thutmose III crushes a Canaanite coalition at Megiddo and, in seventeen campaigns, forges the greatest empire Egypt would ever know, reaching the Euphrates.

  4. Eighteenth Dynasty

    • Amenhotep III and the imperial zenith

      Amenhotep III presides over an age of unrivalled wealth, diplomacy, and art, raising colossal monuments and conducting affairs with foreign kings through the Amarna correspondence.

  5. Amarna Period

    • Akhenaten and the Amarna revolution

      Amenhotep IV renames himself Akhenaten, proclaims the sun-disc Aten as the sole god, and builds a new capital, Akhetaten, with his queen Nefertiti.

  6. Eighteenth Dynasty

    • Tutankhamun restores the old gods

      The boy-king Tutankhamun abandons Amarna, restores the cult of Amun and the traditional gods, and returns the court to Thebes and Memphis.

  7. Nineteenth Dynasty

    • Ramesses II, Kadesh, and the first peace treaty

      Ramesses the Great fights the Hittites at Kadesh, later concluding the world's earliest surviving peace treaty, and reigns for 66 years of monumental building.

  8. Nineteenth Dynasty

    • Merneptah and the first mention of Israel

      Ramesses II's son Merneptah repels a great Libyan and Sea Peoples invasion; his victory stele bears the earliest known mention of Israel.

  9. Twentieth Dynasty

    • Ramesses III defeats the Sea Peoples

      In a great land and sea battle, Ramesses III, the last powerful pharaoh, defeats the Sea Peoples whose migrations are toppling the empires of the Bronze Age.

  10. Decline

    • The end of the New Kingdom

      Under the later Ramesside kings, royal authority crumbles amid tomb robberies and economic decay, and the high priests of Amun seize power in the south, ending the New Kingdom.