Horemheb (Djeserkheperure)
1323 BCE–1295 BCE · New-Kingdom · Thebes
Horemheb (throne-name Djeserkheperure) was a career general of no royal blood who became the last king of Dynasty 18, reigning around 1323-1295 BCE (Shaw's conventional dates). He set about dismantling the Amarna legacy and thoroughly reorganised the administration and law of the country after the upheavals of the period. His legitimation strategy is itself the very mechanism by which the Amarna kings were erased: the official reckoning counts the regnal years of the post-Amarna period to him, so that the later king-lists jump straight from Amenhotep III to Horemheb, swallowing the intervening Amarna decades. He died childless, having named his vizier, the future Ramesses I, as his successor, founding the Ramesside line.
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His Theban royal seat and burial place in the Valley of the Kings.
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