State · 1550 – 1295 BCE
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
A state of 1550 – 1295 BCE — 255 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt. It was followed by Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Its line of rulers holds 14 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 255 years
- 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE
- Rulers
- 14
- the pharaoh
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 1580 – 1550 BCE
After it
- Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt · followed by · 1292 – 1189 BCE
Rulers
The line of pharaoh.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmose I | 1545 BCE – 1520 BCE | 25 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Thutmose I | 1499 BCE – 1489 BCE | 10 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Thutmose II | 1489 BCE – 1479 BCE | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Hatshepsut | 1479 BCE – 1457 BCE | 22 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Thutmose III | 1479 BCE – 1425 BCE | 54 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | nephew or niece |
| Amenhotep II | 1425 BCE – 1399 BCE | 26 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Thutmose IV | 1399 BCE – 1389 BCE | 10 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Amenhotep III | 1389 BCE – 1349 BCE | 40 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Akhenaten | 1349 BCE – 1333 BCE | 16 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Smenkhkare | 1337 BCE – 1336 BCE | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Neferneferuaten | 1336 BCE – 1329 BCE | 7 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Tutankhamun | 1333 BCE – 1324 BCE | 9 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ay | 1324 BCE – 1320 BCE | 4 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Horemheb | 1320 BCE – 1291 BCE | 29 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone |
14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1545 BCE – 1291 BCE. Median reign 13 years. 3 of 13 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood255 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record14
has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1576 BCE – 1269 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1422 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q146055 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.