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Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis

Ay’s successor was Horemheb , a commoner who had risen through the ranks of the military; Horemheb appropriated Ay’s temple for himself, obliterating every inscription containing Ay’s name and expanding the temple compound with forecourts entered through magnificent, relief-carved pylons . Horemheb ruled Egypt for 28 years, his death marking the end of the XVIIIth Dynasty.