Thothmes IV was a king of Egypt of the XVIIIth dynasty. He reigned for about nine years from about 1447 BC until 1438 BC. He undertook military campaigns against Nubia and Phoenicia and maintained friendly relations with Babylon and Mitanni, marrying the Mitannian woman Mutemua, the first foreign alliance made by an Egyptian monarch. He arranged the removal of the sand drift which buried the great Sphinx at Gizeh Research Thothmes IV