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King Ahmose (1514-1493)

Nebti name of Ahmose
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Horus name of Ahmose







Mummy of Ahmose I
Name: Ahmose, Amosis, Ahmes, Tutmesut, Tutmesut, Aakheperu, Nebpehitr.

Ahmose I, king of ancient Egypt (reigned c. 153914 bce) and break of the 18th dynasty who finished the projection of the Hyksos, invaded Palestine, and re-exerted Egypts hegemony over northern Nubia, to the southern. Resuming the war of firing against the Hyksos early in his reign, Ahmose crushed the outlanders allies in Middle Egypt and, modern down the Nile River, captured Memphis, the traditional capital of Egypt, near present-day Cairo. While his mother, Queen Ahhotep, represented as his representative in Thebes (partially engaged by modern Luxor), he attempted a waterborne operation against Avaris, the Hyksos capital, in the eastward delta, followed by a land siege. When a rebellion flamed in Upper Egypt, he induced upriver to quell the early, while Ahhotep served to contain it. Having put down the rising, he fascinated Avaris and then pursued the enemy to Sharuhen, a Hyksos fastness in Palestine, which was reduced afterward a three-year siege.

Before advancing into Palestine, Ahmose in three campaigns advanced into Nubia, whose ruler had been an ally of the Hyksos. The rich gold mines of the south provided another incentive for Ahmoses expansion into Nubia.

After his borders were secure, Ahmose established an administration loyal to him in Egypt and granted lands to distinguished veterans of his campaigns and to members of the royal family. He reactivated the copper mines at Sinai and resumed trade with the cities of the Syrian coast, as attested by inscriptions recording the use of cedar found in Syria and by the rich jewelry from his reign. He restored neglected temples and erected chapels for his family at Abydos, and he died soon afterward, leaving a prosperous and reunited Egypt.

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