People - Ancient Egypt

Kamose (Wadjkheperre) in Tour Egypt

KAMOSE (WADJKHEPERRE) 17TH DYNASTY The 15th king of the 17th Dynasty was the son of Sekenenretao and Queen Ahhotep and was the brother of Ahmose I. Kamose's father had been at war with the Hyksos. When Sekenenretao died suddenly, Kamose assumed the throne and the war. Kamose went into war with horse and chariot. His chariots were lighter and mo...

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Thutmose II (Akheperenre) in Tour Egypt

TUTHMOSIS II, PHARAOH, HATSHEPSUT'S HUSBAND by Jimmy Dunn Tuthmosis II might never have ruled Egypt but for the early death of Wadjmose and Amenmose, the eldest sons of Tuthmosis I, leaving him as the only heir. He became the fourth ruler of Egypt's 18th Dynasty. He was apparently the oldest son of Mutnefert, a minor royal queen of Tuthmosis I, ...

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Sewadjkare in Wikipedia

Sewadjkare Hori is a Pharaoh of the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is listed in the Turin Canon and is given a reign of 5 full Years....

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Apachnan (Khian) in Tour Egypt

APACHNAN (KHIAN) 15TH DYNASTY - Apachnan was the third king of the 15th Dynasty. He was considered one of the "Great Heksus". Apachnan's power reached beyond his kingdom in Northern Egypt. Archeologists found some scarabs and seals bearing his name in Northern and Southern Egypt and some Mediterranean islands such as Crete....

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Qar in Wikipedia

Qar was the sixth pharaoh of the Hyksos Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt...

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Sobekhotep I in Wikipedia

Sobekhotep I was an Egyptian king (throne name: Khaankhre) of the 13th Dynasty. He appears in the Turin King List as Sobekhotep and is otherwise mainly known from reliefs coming from a chapel set up in Abydos, from a pedestal of a statue and from a fragment of a column. His reign was most likely only very short....

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Neferhotep I in Wikipedia

Neferhotep I was an Egyptian king of the Thirteenth Dynasty and one of the most powerful rulers of this dynasty.[1] The Turin Canon assigned him a reign length of 11 years. Neferhotep I came from a military family. His grandfather, Nehy, held the title officer of a town regiment’. Nehy was married to a woman called Senebtysy. Nothing is known abo...

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Djehuti in Wikipedia

Djehuti, Djehuty or Thuty was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt belonging to the Theban 16th or 17th dynasties based in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate period. He reigned for 3 years after around 1650 BC according to Kim Ryholt. His wife Mentuhotep's burial was found intact and a (now lost) coffin was identified as hers. It contained one o...

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Sobekhotep IV in Wikipedia

Khaneferre Sobekhotep IV was one of the most powerful Egyptian kings of the 13th Dynasty. He was the son of the 'god's father' Haankhef and of the 'king's mother' Kemi. His brother, Neferhotep I, was his predecessor on the throne. He states on a stela found in the Amun temple at Karnak that he was born in Thebes. Some sources indicate that unde...

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Khyan in Wikipedia

Seuserenre Khyan, Khian or Khayan was reportedly the fourth king of the Hyksos Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled approximately c.1610-1580 BC The Danish Egyptologist, Kim Ryholt, who published an extensive catalogue of the monuments of all the numerous pharaohs of the Second Intermediate Period notes an important personal detail regarding thi...

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