King Tuthmosis the Second and his struggle with Hatshepsut over the rule.

* King Thutmose I died without leaving an heir to the throne, so his son Tuthmosis the Second took over, and he was his son from his secondary wife, and this new king married his heir to the throne of royal blood, who is his sister Hatshepsut, to gain his rule of law and legal status.

* He was weak in character and resembled a symbolic king, while Hatshepsut was firm and rigid in opinion, and there was no kind of affection between them. She later succeeded in confirming her character during his reign and at the expense of his authority, and after a year or two, they had their daughter “Nefro Ra”.

* Before we talk about the conflict between Thutmose II and Hatshepsut, we will present his internal policy and his foreign policy

First, his foreign policy was as follows:

The South: where his rule began with eliminating the revolution at the third waterfall in Kush, and the king did not carry out a disciplinary campaign because the Egyptian forces present there eliminated it before reaching the third waterfall and settled in the first cataract. Here, he reviewed the enemies’ prisoners and made them what any intruder thinks about invading Egypt.

East: He carried out his campaign against the Bedouin tribes in the eastern desert. He carried it against Syria and Palestine, put down the revolution there, and made security and stability his main slogan. This was mentioned in the text of the tomb of Ahmose bin Nukhbet.

Secondly, its internal policy, which is represented in: –

One of his most important architectural facilities is that he built the eighth edifice of the Karnak Temple and added two statues in front of them and set up some chapels in the Temple of Medinet Habu and Lusna. His tomb was dug near his father in the Valley of the Kings, and his mummy was buried in a complete secret.

* Conflict between Thutmose II and Hatshepsut: –

– Something by something, we find the king removed from the scene of events by the Council of Nobles, which strongly supported Hatshepsut’s permanent demands, which announced that her father chose her to succeed him on the throne.

– And between the year 15.16 of his reign, Hatshepsut became imminent about a complete coup to become the king of Egypt and that she stepped down from her husband Tuthmosis the second from the rule of Egypt, as the queen wanted to celebrate in the 17th year of her reign the thirtieth anniversary. She wanted this to show that since her birth, he had called her. Her father succeeds him on the throne, thus assuring the people that she is the Queen who actually rules regardless of her power partner.

– On the occasion of these holidays, the queen ordered that two large obelisks be erected for her to set up in the Karnak temple. Still, her project did not succeed, as the spouses reconciled, and as a result of this reconciliation, Hatshepsut gave birth to an heir, namely Hatshepsut Merit Ra.

– The dispute erupted again between the two spouses because Tuthmosis, the second, married a secondary wife called “Isis” and had a male named “Tuthmosis the Tal” from her. The king showed sympathy with his son from the secondary wife, who was at the age of 16 and was a priest in the temple of Amun-Ra. In Karnak.

– At last, Thutmose II died surprisingly, and it was probably Hatshepsut that ended his life.

Sources:-

Ramadan Abdo, the ancient history of Egypt _ Ahmed Fakhry of Pharaonic Egypt _ Abdel Aziz Saleh, the ancient Near East

Written by archaeologist / Rawan Ahmed