The New Kingdom c.

15501070 BC began with the Eighteenth Dynasty, marking the rise of Egypt
as an international power that expanded during its greatest extension to an empire as far south
as Tombos in Nubia, and included parts of the Levant in the east. This period is noted for some of
the most well known Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten and his
wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. The first historically attested expression
of monotheism came during this period as Atenism. Frequent contacts with other nations brought
new ideas to the New Kingdom. The country was later invaded and conquered
by Libyans, Nubiansand Assyrians, but native Egyptians eventually drove them out and regained
control of their country.[31]