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Historical person
1563 BCE–1496 BCE
Ahmose-Nefertari was an early Eighteenth Dynasty queen and wife of Ahmose I. She held major religious titles, supported dynastic continuity and was later venerated with her son Amenhotep I by the community of royal tomb workers at Deir el-Medina.
Pauline Gedge’s The Oasis is set after Seqenenre Tao’s death, Kamose inherits both the Theban throne and the war against King Apepi. Pauline Gedge’s The Horus Road places Ahmose-Nefertari within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic power.
Series
The Lords of the Two Lands trilogy retells the Theban war against Hyksos rule at the end of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period. The Hippopotamus Marsh centres on Seqenenre Tao’s decision to resist King Apepi, while The Oasis follows Kamose’s increasingly destructive campaign to carry that rebellion north. The…
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