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His successors built a power base at Thebes, and started a cultural renaissance with wide-reaching effects on Egyptian art and archaeology.
Cairo, not Thebes, is the focus of today’s Egypt.
Thebes held onto power until the 12th Dynasty, when its first king, Amenemhet Iwho reigned between 1980–1951 b.c. established a capital near Memphis.
However in 1356–1339 b.c. a new Pharaoh, Amenophis IV, decided to leave Thebes and, with his wife Nefertiti, created a new capital on a virgin site at Tell El Amarna to the north.
They were driven out of Lower Egypt by Ahmose I who founded the 18th Dynasty, ruling over a united Egypt from a capital at Thebes.