The New Kingdom

c. 1550 – 1352 BCE

Egypt's imperial century: the Hyksos expelled, a queen who took the throne, and pharaohs who ruled an empire.

Egypt spent a century under foreign Hyksos kings before Seqenenre Tao died fighting them and his mother Ahhotep I held the army together for the war that followed. Ahmose I finished it, expelling the Hyksos and founding the empire; his queen Ahmose-Nefertari became a cult figure worshipped for four centuries after.

What followed was Egypt's imperial century. Hatshepsut took the kingship outright and built her legitimacy in stone with her steward Senenmut; her stepson Thutmose III waited two decades and then campaigned across the Near East until Egypt's empire reached its widest extent. That wealth funded the golden court of Amenhotep III and his formidable queen Tiye — the calm before the family that would break with everything New Kingdom Egypt believed.

13 figures · sorted by birth year

Amenhotep son of Hapu

notable

#1058 · 8-7-26

INTJ

A commoner sage deified for wisdom alone, honored with a temple beside the king's.

Yuya

obscure

#1057 · 8-7-26

ISTJ

A provincial courtier whose daughter's marriage made him father-in-law to a pharaoh.

Tiye

renown

#1056 · 8-7-26

ENTJ

A commoner queen addressed as a head of state by foreign kings in her own right.

Amenhotep III

renown

#1055 · 8-7-26

ESFP

The Magnificent, whose golden reign was built on spectacle, luxury, and diplomacy.

Neferure

obscure

#1054 · 8-6-26

UNTYPED

A princess groomed for ceremonial power, lost from the record before her mother's reign ended.

Thutmose III

renown

#1053 · 8-6-26

INTJ

Egypt's 'Napoleon,' who waited two decades and then conquered with total precision.

Senenmut

renown

#1052 · 8-6-26

ENTP

The commoner steward and architect who designed Hatshepsut's temple and hid his own face in it.

Hatshepsut

iconic

#1051 · 8-6-26

ENTJ

The queen who took the kingship outright and built her legitimacy in stone.

Ahmose-Nefertari

notable

#1050 · 8-5-26

ESFJ

A queen venerated as a patron deity of Deir el-Medina for four centuries after her death.

Ahmose I

renown

#1049 · 8-5-26

ENTJ

The king who expelled the Hyksos and founded the New Kingdom empire.

Ahhotep I

notable

#1048 · 8-5-26

ENFJ

The queen mother who held army and throne together through a fatherless interregnum.

Seqenenre Tao

notable

#1047 · 8-5-26

ESTP

The king who died facing his enemies, an axe wound in his skull proof of the fight.

Apepi

notable

#1046 · 8-5-26

ENTP

The Hyksos king whose absurd taunt to Thebes helped ignite Egypt's war of liberation.

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