House Ancient Egypt
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Dynasty of Egypt between 1550 BCE and 1295 BCE, notably comprising Akenaten and Hatshepsut
- Dated 1550 BCE – 1292 BCE
- Also called eighteenth dynasty, 18th Dynasty of Egypt, Dynasty XVIII
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 12
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
3 children in the house
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Anen 15th century BCE – 14th century BCE -
Ay 14th century BCE – 14th century BCE 1 child in the house
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Tiye 1398 BCE – 1338 BCE 3 children in the house
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Yuya15th century BCE – 14th century BCE · ancient Egyptian high priest of Min, father-in-law of Amenhotep III - Anen15th century BCE – 14th century BCE · Child of Yuya
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Akhenaten14th century BCE – c. 1336 BCE · Child of Amenhotep III -
Amenhotep III1400 BCE – c. 1351 BCE · ninth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt - Ay14th century BCE · Child of Yuya
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Smenkhkare14th century BCE – 1334 BCE · Child of Tiye -
Meritaten14th century BCE · Child of Akhenaten -
Tjuyu1400 BCE – the 1370s BCE · ancient Egyptian noblewoman, mother-in-law of Amenhotep III - Tiye1398 BCE – 1338 BCE · Child of Yuya
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Nefertitic. 1370 BCE – c. 1330 BCE · Child of Ay -
The Younger Lady1370 BCE – 1330 BCE · Child of Tiye -
Tutankhamunc. 1343 BCE – c. 1324 BCE · Child of Akhenaten
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
- 9 holders
- 1 overlap
- 1 gap
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Overlap held at the same time as Akhenaten
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Gap about 3 years before the next in this house
1333 BCE – 1324 BCE Tutankhamun 14th century BCE (18th dynasty) Egyptian pharaoh Hedged in the source
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded Yuya ancient Egyptian high priest of Min, father-in-law of Amenhotep III -
Dates unrecorded Tiye Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III -
Dates unrecorded Meritaten ancient Egyptian queen consort -
Dates unrecorded Nefertiti Egyptian queen and Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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