Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

118 ALLEGED HATRED OF THE HYKSOS oh. vi..

Without doubt Queen Aah-hotep was buried in
Thebes, where also was the tomb of her royal husband-
She is the real ancestress of the Eighteenth Dynasty,,
and it was her son Aahmes who afterwards rose up as-
the avenger of his native country.

It would seem as if the hatred of the Egyptians-
against the Hyksos kings was by no means so intense
as the story handed down by Manetho appears to re-
present it; for had it been, how is the strange fact to-
be explained that these same Egyptians could prevail
upon themselves to give their children pure Semitic-
names, borrowed from the language of their hereditary
enemies ; or how could they themselves offer their
homage to those gods of the strangers ?

There was a family actually employed in the temple-
of Amen whose ancestor called himself Pet-Baal, the-
' servant of Baal; ' his wife was Abrakro, and among his
descendants we find such names as Atu, Tina, Tetaa,,
Ama, Tanafi, and Tir.

It is to the Theban kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty
that the questionable fame belongs of having destroyed
the monuments of the hostile kings, in order to falsify
historical truth, and they almost succeeded in extir-
pating all contemporary memorials of the Hyksos.
Aahmes, their conqueror, and after him Amen-hotep ELL,
certainly rebuilt and restored the temples, which ' had
fallen into ruins,' though inscriptions in no way
attribute this decay to the destructiveness of the-
Hyksos.

They simply remark that ' the temples had fallen
into ruin since the time of their forefathers.' The only
allusion to foreigners—and this has nothing to do with
any destruction by them—is found on the rock-tablets-
of the twenty-second year of King Aahmes. It runs,
thus :—