By Dannie Gore

Egyptian Pharaoh of about 1500 B.C.E. Founder of the “New Empire,” he defeated and drove out the Hyksos, or Shepard Kings, who had invaded Egypt, supposedly from Asia. Invading Southern Palestine, he captured the fortress of Sharuhen after a siege of three years. He immediately proceeded the Pharaohs of the 18^th, most Negroid of the Egyptian Dynasties.