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There are no recorded campaigns in Syro-Palestine during Amenhotep I's reign.

However, according to the Tombos Stela of his successor, Thutmose I, when Thutmose led a campaign into Asia all the way to the Euphrates, he found no one who fought against him.

If Thutmose did not lead a campaign which has not been recorded into Asia before this recorded one, it would mean that the preceding pharaoh would have had to pacify Syria instead, which would indicate a possible Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep I.

Two references to the Levant potentially written during his reign might be contemporary witnesses to such a campaign.

One of the candidates for Amenhotep's tomb contains a reference to Qedmi, which is somewhere in Canaan or the Transjordan, and Amenemhet's tomb contains a hostile reference to Mitanni.

However, neither of these references necessarily refer to campaigning, nor do they even necessarily date to Amenhotep's reign.

The location of Amenhotep's tomb is not certain, and Amenemhet lived to serve under multiple kings who are known to have attacked Mitanni.

Records from Amenhotep's reign are simply altogether too scant and too vague to reach a conclusion about any Syrian campaign.