His father murdered and the empire under attack, Ahmose I ascended to the throne in a time of chaos yet he established the last era of Egyptian prosperity. Ahmose I created a unified, confident, and ...

Important new discoveries at the Tel Habuwa dig east of the Suez Canal shed light on the campaign by Ahmose I (c.1550–1525 BC) against the Hyksos invaders A team of Egyptian archaeologists digging at ...

A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed, extending the chaotic Second Intermediate Period. By directly comparing ...

When Ahmose (reigned from c1550 – 1525 BC) became king, Egypt was in crisis. It was occupied in the north and threatened in the south. It was a shadow of its former self. But by the time he died, ...

For the first time, two scholars have used radiocarbon analysis to pinpoint the era in which Pharaoh Nebpehtire Ahmose reigned over Egypt, determining that he must have ascended the throne in the ...

CAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut's valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, ...

A pioneering radiocarbon study dates key Egyptian objects and reveals that the catastrophic Minoan eruption of Thera occurred before the reign of the pharaoh who unified Egypt, disproving a famous ...

The second Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty is believed to have reigned ancient Egypt from 1526 to 1506 BC and was the son of Ahmose I and Ahmose-Nefertari. His mummy was found in Deir el-Bahri, but was ...