55: Kamose vs the Hyksos, Blood & Thunder - 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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Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. 2010.

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Spalinger, A. J. (2021). The Books Behind the Masks: Sources of Warfare Leadership in Ancient Egypt. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466111

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