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=== Ay and Horemheb ===
=== Ay and Horemheb ===
* transition from royal line of 18th dynasty
** to bureaucratic / military leaders who installed themselves as pharaohs
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'''Ay'''
'''Ay'''
* Ay, who is possibly Nefertiti's father, probably exercised power during Tutankhamen's reign
* Ay, who is possibly Nefertiti's father, probably exercised power during Tutankhamen's reign
*** Ay succeeded him as full pharaoh
** Ay succeeded him as full pharaoh
'''Horemheb'''
'''Horemheb'''
* Horemheb succeeded Ay as pharaoh and was the last 18th dynasty pharaoh
* Horemheb succeeded Ay as pharaoh and was the last 18th dynasty pharaoh
* political divisions had grown under Akhenaten and his successors
** Horemheb reorganized the kingdom, consolidating power
** commenced the "erasure" of Akhenaten
*** demolished monuments and art of the "Armana period" (period of Akhenaten and his successors)
* Horemheb was son-in-law of Ay
* Horemheb was son-in-law of Ay
** Ay had tried to install is own son as pharaoh
* Ay had tried to install is own son as pharaoh
*** but Horemheb, who was chief general under Tutankhamun and Ay, took power for himself
*** but Horemheb, who was chief general under Tutankhamun and Ay, took power for himself
*** political divisions had grown under Akhenaten and his successors
* Horemheb chose Ramses I to succeed him
** Horemheb reorganized the kingdom, consolidating power
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* Horemheb commenced the "erasure" of Akhenaten
** demolished monuments and art of the "Armana period" (period of Akhenaten and his successors)
** Horemheb chose Ramses I to succeed him


=== Ramses I & Seti ===
=== Ramses I & Seti ===