Episode 11: King Ahmose I

King Ahmose I was the liberator of Egypt from Hyksos and the founder of the 18th dynasty, the era of the sprawling Egyptian Empire in the ancient Near East.

Dr. Hussein Basir said in his book “the warrior pharaohs” that they did not find a royal document belonging to the king’s era about the story of his expulsion of Hyksos. However, they knew about the story of this glorious struggle through the biography of two military leaders of this king.

This confirms the importance of the biographies in Pharaonic Egypt to document the history. the two leaders are the navy commander, Ahmose Ibn Abana, and commander Ahmus bin Nakhbat (from Cape town in Aswan).

They recorded on the walls of their tombs in Cape town their heroic deeds in the wars under the command of Ahmose I, who seized the capital of the Hyksos Avaris and traced them east to the south of Palestine where he defeated and dispersed them. After that they disappeared from history, as if they had not existed before.

In the epic of the struggle of our Egyptian people against Hyksos, the role of the great Egyptian woman in relieving the pains of the men can not be forgotten, in addition to the heroes who defend the great land of Egypt.

King Ahmose I was the one who completed the expulsion of the Hyksos and unified Egypt; he is the maker of Egypt's military glory and founder of the eighteenth dynasty who inspired his successors to establish a vast Egyptian empire in the ancient Near East.

So, one of the most important lessons learned from the occupation of Egypt by Hyksos is defending Egypt on a non-Egyptian land that belongs to the Egyptian Empire .

Contributed by Ali Abu Dashish