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(reigned c. 1400–1390 BC)

   Throne name Menkheperure. Son of Amenhotep II and Tiaa. He was apparently a younger son and not destined to rule, but in his dream stela, he recounts that after hunting in the desert, he rested at the foot of the Sphinx and in a dream was promised the throne if he would undertake clearance and restoration of the monument, which he did upon his accession. Little is known of his reign, but he concluded peace with Mitanni and is the first ruler attested with a Mitannian princess, the daughter of Artatama I, as a wife. His principal wives were Nefertari and the Princess Iaret, who was either his sister or daughter. Thutmose IV was succeeded by Amenhotep III, his son by a minor wife, Mutemwia, whose origin is not known. He was buried in KV43 in the Valley of the Kings, which was discovered in 1903, and his mummy was recovered from the royal cache in the tomb of Amenhotep II in 1898. The remains of his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nileopposite Thebeswere excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1896.