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Amenemhat IV was a pharaoh of Egypt in the 12th dynasty, second of four dynasties in the Middle Kingdom period.

He served first as the junior coregent of Amenemhat III and completed the latter's Temple at Medinet Maadi, which is "the only intact Temple still existing from the Middle Kingdom" according to Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the SupremeCouncil of Antiquities (SCA). The Temple's foundations, administrative buildings, granaries and residences were recently uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological expedition in early 2006. Amenemhat IV likely also built a Temple in thenortheastern Fayum at Qasr el-Sagha.

It was after his death that the gradual decline of the Middle Kingdom is thought to have begun.

Amenemhat died without a male heir, though it is possible that the two first rulers of the next dynasty, Sobekhotep I and Sonbef were his sons. He was succeeded by his half-sister (or perhaps his aunt) Sobeknefru, who became the first woman inabout 1500 years to rule Egypt. He may have been Sobeknefru's spouse but no historical evidence currently substantiates this theory.

Amenemhat IV was a pharaoh of Egypt in the 12th dynasty, second of four dynasties in the Middle Kingdom period.