Kamose

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Kamose, whose throne name was Wadjkheperre, reigned as the final pharaoh of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty during Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period. Chronologies place his reign approximately between 1555 and 1550 BC (en.wikipedia.org). He is widely regarded as the last indigenous ruler of Upper Egypt before the establishment of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Kamose was the son of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao, who had already launched initial military efforts against the Hyksos, and is generally considered the brother of Ahmose I, who would succeed him and go on to unify Egypt (en.wikipedia.org). His campaigns against the Hyksos represented a significant escalation in the struggle begun by his father (pharaoharchive.com).

Kamose’s reign is recorded in his own words through two stelae—among the few Egyptian rulers whose war narrative survives in direct first-person accounts (pharaoharchive.com). These inscriptions detail his refusal—despite counsel advocating compromise—to accept the permanent division of Egypt, and his bold attempts to strike at the Hyksos stronghold of Avaris (pharaoharchive.com). He intensified the regional resistance and laid strategic groundwork for the eventual expulsion of the Hyksos.

Following Kamose’s death around 1550 BC, his mother Ahhotep I is thought to have assumed power—likely as regent—continuing military efforts until Ahmose I was old enough to take the throne and achieve reunification of Egypt (en.wikipedia.org). Kamose’s own military leadership marked a turning point in ancient Egyptian history: his actions directly paved the way for the emergence of the New Kingdom and the consolidation of a united state under the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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