The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01 : $b Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia
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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01 : $b Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia
World history
The Nubian campaign was a short and unimportant one. A more important
one was directed against the Amukehaka, who apparently were a portion
of the Libyan race of the Tuhennu. These people had for centuries been
restless and given trouble to the Pharaohs, but the strength of the New
Kingdom was now entirely able to cope with them. Notwithstanding these
few campaigns, the reign of Amenhotep I is to be characterised as one
of peace and internal prosperity. He merely attained in the South and
West that security his father had brought about in the North. Commerce,
agriculture, and town life flourished, and indeed he well deserved the
veneration which for centuries was accorded him in the Theban capital
and where he is represented as Osiris. The coffin and mummy of this
king were among Professor Maspero’s wonderful find at Deir-el-Bahari.
He thus tells of it: “Long garlands of faded flowers deck the mummy
from head to foot. A wasp attracted by their scent must have settled
upon them at the moment of burial, and become imprisoned by the lid;
the insect has been completely preserved from corruption by the balsams
of the embalmer, and its gauzy wings have passed uncrumpled through the
long centuries.”
[Sidenote: [_ca._ 1590-1565 B.C.]]
Amenhotep married his own sister, Aah-hotep II, and among their
children was a princess, Aahmes. The Pharaoh had also, by a concubine,
Sensenb, a son, Tehutimes, who was married to his half-sister Aahmes.
Tehutimes was probably a little younger than his wife. Aahmes, from her
pure royal descent, had far more claim to the throne than her husband
and brother, but for some reason she yielded her rights, and Tehutimes
was crowned at Thebes the 21st of Phamenoth, the third month. If he
had been co-regent with his father, it must have been for a short
time only. The new king was a tall, broad-shouldered, well-knit man,
possessed of great powers of endurance. His full round face is marked
with a long nose and square chin, and his thick lips wear a smiling but
firm expression.
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