Thutmose III was very much alive.
Later Thutmose III joined the military.
Thutmose II was still living.
Thutmose III is considered one of the greatest
pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
The marriage served a vital purpose of establishing Thutmose II's legitimacy as king.
However Thutmose I, like other Egyptian pharaohs, maintained secondary wives also
known as harem wives.
Being the son of Thutmose I's harem wife was only one of his problems.
So the position of pharaoh skipped Hatshepsut and instead went to her half-brother, Thutmose II.
Egyptian King Thutmose III is said to have brought back 90,000 prisoners
after one military campaign in Canaan.
When his father Thutmose II died, the boy
who would become Thutmose III was only ten years old.
So when Thutmose II died shortly after taking over, his son
from a harem wife became the next pharaoh.
Illustrations at her mortuary temple tell the story that her father, Thutmose I, wanted her to become pharaoh.
So Thutmose I became king after marrying into the royal family,
further diminishing Thutmose II's claim to the throne.
In fact, he may have been Thutmose, who disappeared from the historical records, reappearing as the biblical Moses.
After he gained some experience there and proved himself worthy,
Hatshepsut ultimately named Thutmose III the supreme commander of her armies.
When Thutmose's tomb was uncovered in 1898,
all that was left was a sarcophagus, a few wooden statues and some broken furniture.
The long history of Megiddo began in the second millennium
B.C. E. when the Egyptian ruler Thutmose III defeated the Canaanite rulers there.
Another illustration claim the god Amun took on the appearance of Thutmose I and appeared to her mother the night Hatshepsut was conceived.
It was in a brightly coloured wooden sarcophagus and
had been buried near a temple from the era of fourth-millennium warrior king Thutmose III.
Except there was a catch- Thutmose III was only an infant at the time of his father's death
and much too young to ascend to the throne.
It is theorized that a political crisis might have forced her to take on the
role of king or risk Thutmose III losing his position for good.
Then at some point during the first seven years of
Thutmose III's reign, Hatshepsut took the unprecedented step and declared herself pharaoh and co-ruler with Thutmose III.
However, more recently this idea has been largely dismissed and
her takeover is thought to have been about protecting Thutmose III's throne,
which he may have had a tenuous hold over for similar reasons to his father.