thumb | right | Statue of Thutmosis III, pharaoh of Egypt in the 1470s BCEThe '''1470s BC''' was a decade lasting from January 1, 1479, BC to December 31, 1470, BC. {{Decadebox BC|147}}
==Events== * c. 1478 BC–1390 BC—Hand mirror, Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. * c. 1473 BC—Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty) started to rule. She is a daughter of Thutmose I. Married to her half brother Thutmose II. * c. 1473 BC–1458 BC – Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari is built. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. * c. 1473 BC–1458 BC—Hatshepsut as sphinx, from Deir el-Bahari was made. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
==Significant people== *Thutmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1479 BC–1425 BC). He was the first who called himself "pharaoh"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schulman |first=Alan R. |date=1965-10-01 |title=''The Chronology of the Amarna Letters, with Special Reference to the Hypothetical Coregency of Amenophis III and Akhenaten''. By Edward Fay Campbell Jr. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/502193 |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=5 |doi=10.2307/502193 |issn=0002-9114|url-access=subscription }}</ref> *Hatshepsut, female Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty (1473 BC–1458 BC)
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