Thutmose Iii Quotes

Pharaoh Thutmose III, who ruled from 1479-1425 BCE, captured the cities of Byblos, Arwad, and Ullasa,

Honey was especially valued by the Egyptians. It was used as salve for wounds, for mummification, and especially in foods and drinks such as honey cakes and honey-based beer. It was valued like gold and silver, and was often collected as a type of tax or taken as a spoil of war. Thutmose III, for example, collected over 470 jars of honey when he invaded Canaan (today’s Israel and Palestine), the “land of milk and honey.

Thut-mose III opened the series of military campaigns in Asia by an expedition against the former fortified places of the Hyksos. The feeling of insecurity produced by the foreign occupation was long in disappearing. It was in order to make Egypt invulnerable to external aggression that Thut-mose III proceeded to a series of conquests that ended in the Empire.

Although Sinai 361 is not dated, it is found among other inscriptions in the mines at Serâbît el Khadîm of the Egyptian New Kingdom. The pottery found in those mines was used during the reigns of Thutmose III (the Pharaoh who chased Moses out of Egypt) and Amenhotep II (the Pharaoh of the exodus) — so the pottery dates the inscription (c. 1446 B.C.).

The New Kingdom, and the 18th dynasty in particular, was a golden age for the Feline Goddesses. This was driven by a number of the kings who were particular devotees. Hatshepsut (18th dynasty) was especially devoted to the powerful Solar and Lioness Goddesses as was Thutmose III (18th dynasty). Amenhotep III (18th dynasty) was particularly devoted to Sekhmet and Mut as was Sety I.