55: Blood and Thunder (Kamose vs Hyksos)

Second Intermediate Period (Part 4). In 1560 BCE, Seqenenre Tao / Ta'a was dead. Killed in battle, the king's body lay on the field, beaten and bloody. Now, the task of ruling the southern kingdom fell to his wife Ahhotep and his son Kamose. The latter would lead a campaign of reprisal, a bloody raid into the heart of enemy territory...

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Select bibliography:

• Garry J. Shaw. “The Death of King Seqenenre Tao.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 2009. Read online at JSTOR.
• Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. 2010.
• William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt.
• Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt. 2005.
• Reshafim.org – The Kamose Inscriptions.

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