56: The Return of the King

Warfare Along the Nile. Around 1550 BCE, the young King Ahmose I was pursuing battle against the enemy Hyksos. The King and his mother, Ahhotep, pummeled their foes mercilessly. But they also took time to raise friends to high places...

Date c.1550 BCE.

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Select Bibliography:

Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose son of Ibana.

Irene Forstner-Muller, “Avaris, its Harbours and the Peru-nefer Problem,” Egyptian Archaeology 45 (2014). Read for free online at Academia.edu.

W. Vivian Davies, “The Tomb of Ahmose Son-of-Ibana at Elkab, Documenting the Family and Other Observations,” Elkab and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Luc Limme, 2009. Read for free at Academia.edu.

Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.

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