Horemheb wife Mutnodjmet-18dy

Horemheb, of non royal origin, began his military career during the reign of Aakhenatun reign. A brilliant soldier, he ascends quickly in the hierarchy and becomes a General, then General-in-chief. His military career continued under the reign of Tutankhamun, during whom it is extremely probable that he exercised the reality of power. In the confusion of the post Amarna period, and under the reign of a child-king, it is very probable that the cohesion of the country and the stability of its borders rested largely on him. Nevertheless, he was unable to seize power for himself at the death of Tutankhamun, and had to let the old man Ay assend to the throne for a few years.With this ones death, Horemheb was finally able to take up the Double-crown.The civil tomb which Horemheb had construct for himself at Saqqara was rediscovered there a few years ago by G. T. Martin. Fragments were already known from the Museum of Leiden, as with that of Berlin.

With him, there were soldiers who came to power in the Double-lands. The events of the Amarna were erased, the Theban cult of Amun recovers its pre-eminence.Djeser-Kheperu-Re (approx. 1319-1292) lassically regarded as the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. In fact, he constitutes the beginning of the 19th Dynasty, and one can even to say that he constitutes a dynasty totally to himself.Not having had children, he will choose his faithful comrade-in-arms, Pa-Ramessu (the future Ramses I) to succeed to him, having already conceived the grandeur of a son that of the future Sethi I.

This is the most innovative realisation which Horemheb left in Thebes.His plan conjugates a change in axis, such as at the beginning of the dynasty, with the rectilinear plan of Amarna tombs.Its decoration, which mixes the relief raised on base of blue paint is of high quality, although it has not been entirely finished entirely.One finds inscribed on the walls the first copy of the "Book of Doors", where monumental doors punctuate every hour of the night, a new concept of the nocturnal journey of the sun.