Before Tutankhamun. Before Hatshepsut. Before Ramesses the Great. There was Ahmose.For more than a century, Egypt was divided.In the north, the Hyksos ruled from their capital at Avaris, controlling the richest lands of the Nile Delta. In the south, the native kings of Thebes struggled to preserve the last remnants of Egyptian independence.It was an age of uncertainty, foreign domination, and war.Into this fractured world was born a young prince named Ahmose.After the deaths of his father, Seqenenre Tao, and his brother, Kamose, the burden of an unfinished struggle fell upon his shoulders. What followed would change the course of Egyptian history.Drawing on archaeological discoveries, ancient inscriptions, and modern scholarship, The Forgotten Pharaoh tells the remarkable story of the ruler who expelled the Hyksos, reunited the Two Lands, secured Egypt's borders, restored its temples, and laid the foundations of the New Kingdom, the greatest era of pharaonic civilization.Blending historical research with vivid narrative storytelling, this book brings to life a decisive chapter in Egypt's past and reveals why Ahmose deserves to be remembered among the most important rulers of the ancient world.For without Ahmose, there would be no empire of Thutmose III, no monuments of Hatshepsut, no golden age of Amenhotep III, and no legacy of Ramesses the Great.He was not the most famous pharaoh.But he was the one who made all the others possible. Read more