Ahmose I (Nebpehtyre)
1550 BCE–1525 BCE · New-Kingdom · Thebes
Ahmose I (throne-name Nebpehtyre) founded Dynasty 18 and the New Kingdom, reigning around 1550-1525 BCE (Shaw's conventional dates). He completed the long Theban war of liberation by capturing the Hyksos capital of Avaris and pursuing the defeated foreign rulers into the southern Levant, then reunified Egypt under a single crown and launched the imperial age that would make Egypt the dominant power of the eastern Mediterranean. The campaigns are vividly recorded in the tomb autobiography of a soldier, Ahmose son of Ibana, who served in them, one of the most important contemporary military sources of the period. The expulsion of the Hyksos that his reign completed is a documented historical event and is not the biblical Exodus, with which it should not be confused.
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The Theban royal seat from which he launched the final war of liberation.
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