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Ahmose I

r. c. 1550–1525 BCE · 16th century BCE

Ahmose I was the pharaoh who founded the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt around 1550 BCE. He completed the expulsion of the Hyksos from northern Egypt and reunited the country. His reign marks the beginning of the New Kingdom, the period of the Egyptian Empire's greatest expansion.

Ahmose I
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Fifteenth Dynasty of EgyptSeventeenth Dynasty of Egypt

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