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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