|Amosis, according to Manetho, also Amasis| A fragmentary statue
of Ahmose I, Metropolitan Museum of Art. |Pharaoh of Egypt|
|Reign||c. 1550–1525 BC (Conventional Egyptian chronology)
(disputed) 25 years in Manetho, 18th Dynasty
|Predecessor||Kamose (Upper Egypt), Khamudi (Lower Egypt)|
|Consort(s)||Ahmose-Nefertari, God's Wife of Amun, Ahmose-
Sitkamose, Ahmose-Henuttamehu| |Died||c. 1525 BC| |Burial||Mummy
found in Deir el-Bahri cache, but was likely originally buried
in Abydos| |Monuments||Palace at Avaris, Temple of Amun at
Karnak, Temple of Montu at Armant| Ahmose I (Egyptian: Jˁḥ
ms(j.w), sometimes written Amosis I, "Amenes" and "Aahmes" and
meaning Born of Iah ) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the
founder of the Eighteenth dynasty. He was a member of the Theban
royal house, the son of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and brother of the
last pharaoh of the Seventeenth dynasty, King Kamose. During the
reign of his father or grandfather, Thebes rebelled against the
Hyksos, the rulers of Lower Egypt. When he was se