The joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission working in El-Matareya “Heliopolis” succeeded in revealing two days ago granite stone blocks from the era of King Khufu in the Temple of the Sun, in addition to the foundations of the temple’s courtyard, which dates back to the era of the New Kingdom and a number of statues and altars, in addition to also revealing a base Statue of King Amazis, who is that king?
King Amazis is Ahmose II. He is the second most important king in the twenty-sixth dynasty of the Sawi or the Sawi era after the founding king, Psamtik I, and he ruled a long period of the Sawi era estimated at about forty-four years from the age of the family estimated at about one hundred and thirty-eight years, i.e. a period of more than a third of the life of The family, and his reign was an era of prosperity, sovereignty, prosperity, creativity, reconstruction, construction, cooperation and communication with external powers.
In the book "Warrior Pharaohs: Diplomats and Military" by Dr. Hussein Abdel Basir, it was stated that the royal capital Sais in the middle of the Egyptian Delta flourished during the reign of King Ahmose II Amazis, and the city was celebrated with the Sawy royal tombs, but this city was not fully and comprehensively excavated, and it was not We find in it only a few ushabti statues or the mujib statues that the ancient Egyptian used to do work on his behalf in the other world, and ten of those statues bear the name Psmatic, but it is difficult to determine their ratio to any of the three kings who bore the name Psmatic. There are six Ushabti statues bearing the name of King Ahmose II Amazis.
Dr. Hussein Abdel-Basir added that what counts for the reign of King Ahmose II Amazis is that trade in the Mediterranean was an important dimension of the Egyptian foreign policy in that period, and its consolidation was a necessity of his prosperous and long reign, and it was also an essential task of the Egyptian fleet. in the Mediterranean. Accordingly, a large number of nations in the Mediterranean, especially the Greeks, have dealt and cooperated with each other. The intensity of the intervention of King Ahmose II Amazis in the Greek world was that he reconstructed the famous and great temple of Revelation of the Lord Apollo in Delphi after a massive fire came upon it and completely destroyed it in the year 548 before the birth of Christ, peace be upon him.
The book "The Warriors Pharaohs" continued that after the Assyrian threat to Egypt before at the end of the twenty-fifth dynasty, the Nubian or the Kushite, came the Babylonian expansion and military activity heavily in the ancient Near East, which caused concern and threat to Sawian Egypt throughout the family era, but the scene witnessed a player New, strong and violent swallowed all the old powers, and established a new empire, I mean the Persian Empire, which fought the Greeks with all cruelty.
Wed, Jun. 15, 2022
