# REDIRECT Ahmose I

The pyramid at Abydos, Egypt were commissioned by Ahmose I who founded the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

After Egyptian power revived during the New Kingdom ( c. 1570-1100 BC ), the pharaoh Ahmose I incorporated Kush as an Egyptian ruled province governed by a viceroy.

* 1550 BC: End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty upon the coronation of Ahmose I ( Low Chronology ).

* Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt ( 1550 BC – 1525 BC ).

* Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt ( 1570 – 1546 BC ).

* Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt ( 1570 – 1546 BC )

* 1550 BC — Ahmose I becomes Pharaoh of Egypt ( although only de facto ruler of Upper Egypt ) according to the Low Chronology.

* History of ancient Israel and Judah — earliest date for Ahmose I founding the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

* 1545 BC — Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, dies, according to the High Chronology.

When Ahmose I overthrew the Hyksos and expelled them from Egypt, Egyptian attitudes towards Asiatic foreigners became xenophobic, and royal propaganda discredited the period of Hyksos rule.

Ahhotep I, lauded as a warrior queen, may have been a regent between the reigns of two of her sons, Kamose and Ahmose I, at the end of the seventeenth dynasty and the beginning of Hatshepsut's own eighteenth dynasty.

In this myth, Amun goes to Ahmose in the form of Thutmose I and awakens her with pleasant odors.

* c. 1550 – 1400 BC: Jerusalem becomes a vassal to Egypt as the Egyptian New Kingdom reunites Egypt and expands into the Levant under Ahmose I and Thutmose I.

By c. 1550 – 1400BC, Jerusalem had become a vassal to Egypt after the Egyptian New Kingdom under Ahmose I and Thutmose I had reunited Egypt and expanded into the Levant.

Thenceforth " no single ruler was able to control the whole of Egypt " until the New Kingdom under Ahmose I. Nehesy's kingdom may have extended " from Tell el-Habua and Tell el-Daba " in the Eastern Nile Delta.

With the creation of the eighteenth dynasty around 1550 BC -- with the accession of Ahmose I, the New Kingdom period of Egypt begins.

Ahmose I would succeed in expelling the Hyksos from Egypt and placing the country under a centralised administrative control for the first time since the mid-13th dynasty.

Ahmose was an Ancient Egyptian royal queen of pharaoh, Thutmose I, and the mother of queen and later, pharaoh, Hatshepsut.

It has been suggested that Ahmose was either a daughter of pharaoh Amenhotep I or a daughter of pharaoh Ahmose I and possibly Ahmose I's sister-wife Ahmose-Nefertari.

His mother, Ahhotep I, is thought to have ruled as regent after the death of Kamose and continued the warfare against the Hyksos until Ahmose I, the second son of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I, was old enough to assume the throne and complete the expulsion of the Hyksos and the unification of Egypt.

Indeed, Senakhtenre Ahmose, the first king in the line of Ahmoside kings even imported white limestone from the Hyksos controlled region of Tura in Lower Egypt to make a granary door at the Temple of Karnak.

Towards the end of the Seventeenth dynasty, Kamose, the last king of the Seventeenth Dynasty, besieged Avaris, but could not dislodge the Hyksos, who were finally expelled some 18 years later ( c. 1550 BC ) by Ahmose I, the founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

It was his much younger brother, Ahmose I, however, who finally succeeded in recapturing Avaris, razing it, and expelling the Hyksos rulers from Egypt altogether.

Seqenenre Tao is credited with starting the opening moves in the war of liberation against the Hyksos, which was ended by his son Ahmose.

This is the same name as that of his grandson, Neb-Pehty-Re Ahmose I who founded the 18th dynasty by defeating the Hyksos and ousting them from Egypt.

Ahmose I, who drove out the Hyksos kings from Egypt, established the 18th Dynasty.

The vase, however, may just as well have been an item which was looted from Avaris after the eventual victory over the Hyksos by Ahmose I.

" Ahmose is her name, the beneficent, mistress of, She is the wife of the king Aakheperkare ( Thutmose I ), given life forever " ( from Breasted's Ancient Records ).

Here, among the debris of broken pottery and shattered stone vessels from the burial chamber and lower passages were the remnants of two vases made for Queen Ahmose Nefertari which formed part of the original funerary equipment of Thutmose I ; one of the vases contained a secondary inscription which states that Thutmose II " it as his monument to his father.

This identification has been supported by subsequent examinations, revealing that the embalming techniques used came from the appropriate period of time, almost certainly after that of Ahmose I and made during the course of the Eighteenth dynasty.

It was long believed that Kehek was a reference to the Libyan tribe, Qeheq, and thus it was postulated that invaders from Libya took advantage of the death of Ahmose to move into the western Nile Delta.

It is uncertain the degree to which this inscription referred to contemporary events or rather repeated anti-Asiatic sentiment from the reign of Pharaoh Ahmose I. Setnakhte identified with the God Atum or Temu, and built a temple to this God at Per-Atum ( Biblical Pithom ).

A slightly longer reign of five years for Kamose has now been estimated by Ryholt and this ruler's time-line has been dated from 1554 BC to 1549 BC to take into account a one year period of coregency between Ahmose and Kamose.

It was occupied from about 1783 to 1550 BC, or from the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt through the second intermediate until its destruction by Ahmose I, the first Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.

A donation stela from Karnak records how king Ahmose purchased the office of Second Prophet of Amun and endowed the position with land, goods and administrators.

French Egyptologists from CFEETK ( Centre Franco-Égyptien d ' Étude des Temples de Karnak ) in March 2012 have now published hieroglyphic inscriptions on a recently discovered large 17th dynasty limestone door built for a granary of a temple of Amun at Karnak which bears Senakhtenre's full royal name and it shows that this ruler's birth name or nomen was in fact " Ahmose " ( not Tao ).

The villagers held Amenhotep I ( c. 1526 – 1506 BCE ) and his mother Queen Ahmose Nefertari in high regard over many generations, possibly as divinized patrons of the community.

Ahmose I became the first king of the eighteenth dynasty, a pharaoh ruling over a reunited country.

The villagers of Deir el-Medina held Amenhotep I and his mother Queen Ahmose Nefertari in high regard over many generations.

According to the Turin Canon of Kings, he ruled over the northern portion of Egypt for forty years, and would have ruled during the early half of the 16th century ( BCE ) if he outlived his southern rival, Kamose, but not Ahmose I.