Amenemope Egyptian Pharaoh. His name means "Amun in the Opet Feast", After serving as co-regent with his father, the Pharaoh Psusennes I, he became sole ruler in 993 BC. He ordered the decoration of the chapel of Isis "Mistress of the Pyramids at Giza" and built an extension to a temple at Memphis. He died in 992 BC and was buried with his father at Tanis. His tomb was discovered by Pierre Montet in 1940, and is famous for the gold burial mask and other treasures it contained. His remains were...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb 3, room 2.
Osorkon II Egyptian Pharaoh. His name means "Osorkon, Beloved of Amun", and he ruled Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty. He came to power in 874 BC and was one of the stronger Pharaohs of the Third Intermediate Period. He suppressed rival claimants to the High Priesthood of Amun at Thebes and appointed his own son, Nimlot, as High Priest in order to maintain his influence there. He sought alliances with Egypt's neighbours as a defence against the rising power of Assyria, and allied himself with the Kings of...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb 1, room 4.
Psusennes I Egyptian Pharaoh. His name means "The Star Appearing in the City" and he reigned for between forty one and forty six years during the Twenty first Dynasty. He was responsible for building the enclosure walls and central part of the temple of Amun, Mut and Khonsu at Tanis. At the time of his reign the High Priests of Amun controlled the area surrounding Thebes, but he maintained good relations with them and the High Priest Smendes II gave grave goods for his tomb. He died in 1001 BC and his tomb...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: NRT III
Shoshenq II. Egyptian Pharaoh. His name means "The Manifestation of Re Rules, Chosen of Re" and he ruled Egypt from 887 BC until 885 BC, during the 22nd Dynasty. The presence in his tomb of large amounts of silver, which was rarer than gold in Ancient Egypt, suggests that his reign was a successful and prosperous one, but he died after two years as the result of an infected head wound. His tomb was discovered, largely intact, by Pierre Montet in 1939, and yielded a magnificent hawk headed silver sarcophagus...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb 3, roon 5.
Shoshenq I Egyptian Pharaoh. He was the founder of Egypt's Twenty Second Dynasty. He came originally from Libya, rising through the military to the rank of "Commander in Chief of all the Armies" and "Great Chief of the Meshwesh (police force). He was in a position to take the throne because of his marriage to the daughter of his predecessor, Psusennes II, who he succeeded in 945 BC. He soon proved an able ruler, maintaining control by appointing his sons to high offices in the priesthood, army and...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb of Shoshenq I
Shoshenq III Egyptian Pharaoh. He ruled during Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty, coming to the throne in 837 BC on the death of Osorkon II. This was in a time of instability referred to as the Third Intermediate Period. During his reign the political unity of Egypt began to break down as Pedubast I seized power in Thebes, leaving all subsequent Twenty-second Dynasty Pharaohs in control of Lower Egypt only. The legitimacy of Shoshenq's own claim to the throne is also somewhat unclear as he was not a son of his...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb V
Siamun Egyptian Pharaoh. He ruled during Egypt's Twenty First Dynasty, coming to the throne in 986 BC and reigning for nineteen years. He was Pharaoh during a time of unrest known as the Third Intermediate Period and while he ruled Upper Egypt from Tanis, the High Priest Pinedjem II controlled Lower Egypt from Thebes. Unusually for a king of this period, he left a number of monuments in Lower Egypt, and he is considered to be one of the most powerful rulers of his dynasty. His construction projects...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb of Psusennes I
Takelot I Egyptian Pharaoh. A Pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty Second Dynasty, he ruled from 885 BC until his death in 872 BC. He reigned during the Third Intermediate Period, a time of unrest in which his control over Upper Egypt was challenged by the local Theban "King" Harsiese "A". Evidence for his thirteen year reign comes from the Pasenhor Serapeum Stele and also from two donation stele that he erected at Bubastis. His mummy was moved from its original, now lost, tomb by his son, Osorkon II and reburied...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb of Osorkon II
Takelot II Egyptian Pharaoh. He came to power in 850 BC, ruling during the 22nd Dynasty in the era known as the Third Intermediate Period. He was initially able to keep Southern Egypt under control because his brother, Nimlot, ruled over it as High Priest of Amun at Thebes. Trouble broke out on Nimlot's death in the eleventh year of Takelot's reign when Thebes rejected his choice of his son, Prince Osorkon, as High Priest and rebelled, but he had the uprising ruthlessly put down and it's leaders executed...[Read More] (Bio by: js) Royal Tomb Complex, Tanis, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Plot: Tomb I, room III.
