"The minute you begin to write about those people you write fiction."
-Barry Kemp, (Cambridge University) in PHARAOHS OF THE SUN,
National Geographic, National Geographic Society, US [April 2001] pp. 38- 39.

18th Dynasty
from attributed sources

1375BC Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton) became concerned about abuses in the Osiris cult. He posited a new monotheistic religion
dedicated to the worship of the sun. He moved the capital from Thebes to El-Amarna.
 (eawc, p.4)

1360BC Tutankhamen was ten when his father, Akhenaten, died. Akhenaten's advisor, Aye, became regent while Tut was growing up and effectively ruled the country.
 (SFC, 1/25/97, p.A7)

1353-1336 The 18th Dynasty Amarna Period of Egypt. It was the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten, and moved his capital to Akhetaten (later Amarna).  The city of Armana later vanished.
 (WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A20)(NG, 9/98, p.17)(USAT, 11/12/99, p.7D)(WSJ, 7/17/00, p.A33)

Fig 2. Akhenaten.  It is believed to be a late image of Akhenaten.
Reign of Akhenaten, 1353 - 1336 B.C.; Yellow stone;
[Department of Egyptian Antiquities. Louvre Museum, Paris]
 

1352  King Tut, the boy king, who died in 1352B.C.
 (Smith., 4/95, p.30)

1350BC Amenophis IV, Pharaoh of Egypt. He changed his name to Akhenaten, for the One God that he wished all his subjects to worship. He moved the capital from Thebes to Amarna. His wife was Nefertiti, daughter-in-law of Amenophis III and Queen Tiye.  After his death the capital was moved back to Thebes, and his successor, a young boy named Smenkhkare reigned for three years.
[see 1360BC]
 (L.C.-W.P.p.105)

1350  "One undisputed fact is that Tut died at about age 20 in 1350B.C."
 (SFC, 1/25/97, p.A7)

1350-1334 Akhenaten ruled in the 18th Dynasty.
 (R4,1998)

1347-1338BC Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt, ruled for nine years. He was followed by King Ay, and then a soldier named Horemhab, whom some regard as the last Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty  while others think he was the founder of the Nineteenth.  Horemhab is thought to have prevented the dynastic marriage of Ankhesnamun, the widow of Tutankhamun, to prince Zananza, son of the Hittite king, Suppilliliumas. Documents discovered at the Hittite capital of Boghaz-Koy in Turkey prove beyond doubt that the young queen was writing to Suppililiumas imploring him to send her one of his sons so that she might make him King of Egypt. It is suspected that the young prince was killed on his was to Egypt under the orders of Ay or Horemhab. Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen.
 (L.C.-W.P.p.107-110)(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.598)(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A10)
  In 1931 a ring was found by Percy Newberry in a Cairo antiquities shop the bore an inscription indicating that Aye and
Ankhesenaten were married.
 (SFC, 1/25/97, p.A7)
  Aye died after three years on the throne and the walls of his tomb showed another woman, Tiy, as his wife.
 (SFC, 1/25/97, p.A7)

Fig 3. Tutankhamen wearing a nemes headdress
Reign of Tutankhamen, 1332 - 1322 B.C.; Sandstone;
                                                   Gift of Miss Mary S. Ames.
[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]

c1340BC A bust of Nefertiti was made that was later part of the Egyptian exhibit at the Museum of Berlin.
 (SFC, 7/7/96, T5)

1339  King Tut died. [see 1347-1338, 1323]
 (SFEC, 5/17/98, Z1 p.8)

1336-1334 Smenkhare ruled in the 18th Dynasty.
 (R4,1998)

1334-1333 The period of the 18th Dynasty under Smenkhkare.
 (NG, 9/98, p.17)

1334-1325 Tutankhamun ruled in the 18th Dynasty. [see 1339]
 (R4,1998)

1333BC Battle of Kadesh. Certain little known tribes in league with the Hittites against Rameses II, when he set out to recover the ground lost to Egypt during the futile reign of Ikhnaton.
 (R.M.-P.H.C.p.19)

1333-1323 The period of the 18th Dynasty under Tutankhamun.
 (NG, 9/98, p.17)

1330BC A memorial to the servant who suckled Tutankhamen was reported found by French archeologists in 1997 at the Saqqara
necropolis 13 miles south of Cairo. Hieroglyphics and a relief that showed a woman with breast and nipple exposed pay tribute to Maya, "who fed the body of a god."
 (SFC,12/897, p.A18)

Fig 4. General Horemheb as a scribe. Possibly from Memphis
                                            Reign of Tutankhamen, 133 - 1322 B.C.; Gray granite;
                                            Gift of Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923.
[The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]

 

1325-1321 Ay ruled in the 18th Dynasty.
 (R4,1998)

1323  King Tut died at age 18. [see 1339]
 (SSFC, 2/4/01, Par p.11)

1323-1319 The period of the 18th Dynasty under Ay.
 (NG, 9/98, p.17)

Fig 5. The tomb of Ptahhemwia, Dashur, 2001. [Waseda University]

1321-1293 Horemheb ruled in the 18th Dynasty.
 (R4,1998)

1319-1292 The period of the 18th Dynasty under Horemheb.
 (NG, 9/98, p.17)

  Fig 6. Maya and Meryt, Saqqara. Dynasty 18, reign of Horemheb,
1310 - 1292 B.C.  [Limestone, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden].

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the above extracted from Timelines:
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Fig 7. Amarna-style necklet found in the tomb of Ptahhemwia, Dashur, 2001. [Waseda University]

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Online References:
ABZU:http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_EGYPT.HTML
ArabNet:http://www.arab.net/egypt/history/egypt_history.html
Christy's TL: http://www.smokylake.com/Christy/egypt.htm
CIA Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/eg.html
HTA: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/africa/egypt.html
MFA POTS TL: http://www.mfa.org/egypt/amarna/learn_time/learn_time.html
USDS: http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/nea/egypt9503.html
USDS: http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/1999/nea/99egypt.html
USLC: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/egtoc.html

Akhenaten's Timeline
from attributed sources

KEY:
1. Events of the regnal years according to Kemp¹ : Hornung²: Ibrahem³:
2. Solar Eclipses matched to the Julian Years (ie. 1338*)