Thutmose III (sometimes read as
Thutmosis or
Tuthmosis III,
Thothmes in older history works, and meaning "
Thoth is born") was the sixth
Pharaoh of the
Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was
co-regent with his stepmother and aunt,
Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh. While he was shown first on surviving monuments, both were assigned the usual royal names and insignia and neither is given any obvious seniority over the other. He served as the head of her armies.