Location:
Egypt
Coordinates:
25.6870, 32.6390
Events at Thebes (5)
1391 BC
ID: 3650
Amenhotep III becomes pharaoh - Egypt reaches zenith of artistic and international power
ID: 3650
1353 BC
ID: 3651
Akhenaten becomes pharaoh - marries Nefertiti, begins planning religious revolution
ID: 3651
1332 BC
ID: 3657
Tutankhamun restores old gods - boy king returns capital to Thebes, reopens temples, appeases priests
ID: 3657
1323 BC
ID: 3658
Death of Tutankhamun at 19 - buried with unprecedented treasures, possible murder, end of Amarna line
ID: 3658
1319 BC
ID: 3659
Horemheb erases Amarna period - systematically destroys Akhetaten, removes names from records
ID: 3659