A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

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 ...

As a professor of ancient history, one of the questions I often get when I teach the history of Pharonic Egypt is about the biblical story of the Exodus. Did this wonderful story of Moses and the ...

Moses takes leave of Jethro and Midian and, accompanied by Aaron, makes his way to Egypt, where he first legitimates himself by the signs God has entrusted to him with the Hebrews. He then makes his ...

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 ...

I have sat here in the desert for more than 4,000 years. I watched as Pharaoh Ahmose I expelled the I have sat here in the desert for more than 4,000 years. I watched as Pharaoh Ahmose I expelled the ...

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, ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently found an ancient sword belonging to the military of Ramesses II, the pharaoh that scholars believe was referenced in the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of ...