Abstract This essay presents a speculative historical hypothesis: that the figure known in biblical tradition asMoses was, in origin, Crown Prince Thutmose, eldest son of Amenhotep III of Egypt, whovanished from the historical record during the final decade of his father's reign. Each individualclaim about the historical record is grounded in attested archaeological or textual sources. Theconnective tissue between those claims is speculative, and the essay is designed to be tested againstthe evidence rather than protected from it. The hypothesis cannot be proven with currentlyavailable evidence, but the convergence of independently attested data points is presented as acoherent and parsimonious explanation for a set of anomalies that mainstream scholarship has notfully accounted for.
Ian Reynolds (2026) studied this question.