Monday, January 21, 2013

King Ahmose

Ahmose is the son of King Seqenenre taa ( I ). and Queen Ahhotep, and the brother of King Kamose, the last king of the family seventeen. At the age of ten took Ahmose and whose name means Born Moon: Crescent. Rule after the death of his father and the death of his brother in the war against the Hyksos. Upon assuming power took the royal name Neb -Yhetti - Ra

Was Seqenenre (I) began attacking the Hyksos to fight against them and their exodus from Egypt and killed in one of his battles with the Hyksos, and then completed his son Kamose war until cleared level of the Hyksos then Ahmose the expulsion of the Hyksos out of the country.Was Ahmose his armies when he was about 19 ​​years old and used some modern weapons such as chariots and joined the Army a lot of people good and he went and his armies to Avaris (Sun Ahadjrahalaa) Hyksos capital and defeated them there and then followed them to Palestine and trapped in Fort Harohen and drew respondents there until they surrendered did not Hyksos appears later in history, this battle was circa 1580 BC.

Ahmose married Ahmose - Nefertari, which became the first wife of the god Amun, who bore him three sons, one of whom is his successor, Amenhotep I died first and second at a young age, and four daughters are Meritamun and SAT Amon and Ahhotep West Kamose.

Believed to Ahmose cemetery at Abydos and consists of Temple slope funeral and cemetery and the remains of a pyramid discovered in 1899, and knew that his pyramid in 1902 and the Temple of the pyramid and the other in good has been looted by thieves.

The discovered mummy in 1881 in cache Bahari with mummies of some of the kings of families eighteenth and nineteenth century and twenty-one, were identified mummy on June 9 in 1886 by Gaston Maspero, and the length of the mummy 1.63 cm and her face is relatively small compared with the size of the chest

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