Thutmosis III, Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty Size:XL: 120 x 80cm The observatory was completed in

The observatory was completed in 1676: in that year there were both solar eclipses and a transit of Mercury

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According to some accounts he succeeded in cutting an ornament from Henry's crown before being overpowered and killed by the King's bodyguard

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Thutmosis III, Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty Size:XL: 120 x 80cm The observatory was completed inThutmosis III, Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, 15th century BC (1926). The sixth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, Thutmosis (Thutmose) III ruled Egypt from 1479 1426 BC, initially with his aunt, Hatshepsut, as regent and then co ruler. A print from Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt, portraits by Winifred Brunton, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926.