{"slug": "eighteenth-dynasty-of-egypt", "label": "Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146055", "qid": "Q146055", "description": "dynasty of Egypt between 1550 BCE and 1295 BCE, notably comprising Akenaten and Hatshepsut", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [-1566, 2025], "span_label": ["1567 BCE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt"], "related": [{"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "pharaoh", "label": "Pharaoh", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-museum", "label": "British Museum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tutankhamun", "label": "Tutankhamun", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "akhenaten", "label": "Akhenaten", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1566, "year_label": "1567 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1567 BC—Egypt: End of Fifteenth Dynasty, end of Sixteenth Dynasty, end of Seventeenth Dynasty, start of Eighteenth Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345502874#Events_and_trends", "title": "1560s BC", "revid": 1345502874, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1549, "year_label": "1550 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "c. 1550 BC—Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 1552 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694621#Events_and_trends", "title": "1550s BC", "revid": 1361694621, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1544, "year_label": "1545 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "1545 BC—Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, dies, according to the High Chronology.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354177679#Significant_people", "title": "1540s BC", "revid": 1354177679, "section": "Significant people"}}, {"year": -1538, "year_label": "1539 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1539 BC—End of Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326569723#Events_and_trends", "title": "1530s BC", "revid": 1326569723, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1505, "year_label": "1506 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "c. 1506 BC — Thutmose I (Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt) starts to rule. Alternatively, a date of c. 1504 BC is a possibility.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320312812#Events_and_trends", "title": "1500s BC (decade)", "revid": 1320312812, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1499, "year_label": "1500 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "c. 1500 BC: Queen Hatsheput in Egypt (18th Dynasty).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320312812#Events_and_trends", "title": "1500s BC (decade)", "revid": 1320312812, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1492, "year_label": "1493 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "1493 BC—Thutmose I (Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt) died.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1167141159#Events_and_trends", "title": "1490s BC", "revid": 1167141159, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1447, "year_label": "1448 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "c. 1448 BC: The Gnbtyw people (Genebtyw or Genebtyu) first appear in Ganibatum during the 32nd year of the reign of Thutmose III, the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307151209#Events_and_trends", "title": "1440s BC", "revid": 1307151209, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1399, "year_label": "1400 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. 1400 BC – 1350 BC – Garden of Nebamum (Pond in a Garden) wall painting from the tomb of Nebamum, Thebes. Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. It is now kept in The British Museum, London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315282659#Events_and_trends", "title": "1400s BC (decade)", "revid": 1315282659, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1351, "year_label": "1352 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "c. 1352 BC – Amenhotep III (Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt) dies and is succeeded as Pharaoh by Amenhotep IV.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307151220#Events_and_trends", "title": "1350s BC", "revid": 1307151220, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1291, "year_label": "1292 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "1292 BC—Coronation of Pharaoh Ramesses I of Egypt marks the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty and start of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308941361#Events_and_trends", "title": "1290s BC", "revid": 1308941361, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 4", "text": "4 November – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt: English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the Valley of the Kings. On 26 November, Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside the tomb in over 3,000 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365198561#Events", "title": "1922 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1365198561, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 16", "text": "16 February – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: English archaeologist Howard Carter formally unseals the burial chamber within the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366575137#Events", "title": "1923 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1366575137, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – Egypt announces the discovery of Thutmose II's tomb by a joint British-Egyptian team, the first royal tomb to be discovered since Tutankhamun's in 1922. It is the 15th and final pharaoh tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt to have been found by archeologists.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#February", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › February"}}]}