Kamose

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When Seqenenre Taa II died , his son Kamose rose to the throne . He adopted tutelary implied in his three Horus names:
(1)-'Khay-her-nesetef H‘y-hr-nst=f' which means "He who has been crowned on his throne" .
(2)- 'Hornefer-khab-tawy Hr-nfr-h‘b-t3wy' which means "the Perfect Horns who curbs the Two Lands" .
(3)-'Sedjefa-tawy Sdf3-t3wy' which means "He who nourishes the Two Lands" , as in his Nebty name 'Wehem-menu Whm-mnw' which means "He who renews the Monuments" .
Kamose continued the war against the Hyksos and marched with his Medjay troops , north to Nefrusy in the region of Beni Hassan , and therefore defeated the army of a man called Teti . Teti , the son of Pepi , was the chief of the Asiatics in Nefrusy . Kamose sent a naval expedition against the Hyksos possessions in Middle Egypt , which perhaps reached as far as the borders of the 14th nome of Lower Egypt , that is , around Avaris itself .
He gained control of the river trade , capturing at least the towns of Gebelein and Hermopolis . Kamose then returned to Thebes , where he had the account of his exploits inscribed on the temple's wall .
There is a possibility that Kamose might have reconquered Nubia and had certainly begun to move southwards , and this expansion into Nubia was to be continued by Ahmose , as we can deduce from a graffito found at Toshka giving the names of both rulers together .
Somewhere between Thebes and Dendera , Kamose founded a new estate , giving it the name 'Sedjefa-tawy' , which is his Horus name . He also set up a naos and stelae at Karnak .
His tomb at Dra Abu el-Naga was still intact when the necropolis was pillaged during the reign of Ramses IX . His coffin was transferred to the Deir el-Bahari cachette .
In 1857 , a non-royal anthropomorphic coffin was discovered , this must have been Kamose's , but it contained only a mummy crumbled to dust and a few precious objects .
After the struggles of Apophis I with Kamose , he was succeeded by Apophis II , whose name is not recorded on any monuments or objects found south of Bubastis (except for a dagger bought on the antiquities market in Luxor but not necessarily excavated from that area) . The authority of the Hyksos King seems to have been reduced: he conducted a building programme at Bubastis and simply usurped the statues of his predecessors: two granite sphinxes of Amenemhat III , which were later moved to Tanis , and two colossal statues of the Thirteenth Dynasty King Smenkhkare .