Amenhotep II

Amenhotep II was the seventh pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, who ruled all of Egypt for about a decade from around 682 to 672 B.C. He coruled with and succeeded his father Thutmose III, and coruled with and was succeeded by his son Thutmose IV. Little is known about this pharaoh in the revised history, as many of the inscriptions attributed to him by the traditional history actually belong to the crown prince Shoshenq of the 22nd Dynasty.

Amenhotep was the son of Thutmose III, who was the son of Thutmose II, who was himself the son of Thutmose I. This line stretched directly back to the founder of the dynasty, Ahmose I. His only son of note to the revised history is Thutmose IV.

Around 682 B.C., or possibly later, the diseased and ailing Thutmose III appointed his son Amenhotep II coregent with him. Thutmose died soon after, and Amenhotep’s sole reign, of which the events are uncertain, lasted for only six years before he appointed his own son Thutmose IV coregent. Amenhotep II died just one or two years later, ending his short uneventful reign.

The evidence for the revised history can be found at Displaced Dynasties. Supplemental evidence regarding this pharaoh specifically can be found here.