{"id":156794,"date":"2023-02-02T01:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/seqenenre-tao-the-pharaoh-who-died-in-battle"},"modified":"2023-02-02T01:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:23:49","slug":"seqenenre-tao-the-pharaoh-who-died-in-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/seqenenre-tao-the-pharaoh-who-died-in-battle","title":{"rendered":"Seqenenre Tao, the pharaoh who died in battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seqenenre-tao-the-pharaoh-who-died-in-battle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seqenenre Tao was the pharaoh who ruled southern Egypt in the late 17th dynasty, roughly between 1,558 and 1,553 BC.<\/p>\n<p>That was a troubled time. The <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaleve.com\/all-facts-about-hyksos-invasion-of-ancient-egypt\/\">Hyksos<\/a> (whose name in ancient Egyptian was Heqau-khasut, \u201cthe rulers of foreign lands\u201d) occupied the northern part of Egypt and took Avaris (present-day Tell el Dabaa) as their capital during a time called the \u201csecond intermediate period\u201d (1650\u22121550 BC).<\/p>\n<p>Although the pharaohs maintained power over the south (with capital in Thebes), the entire territory was forced to pay tribute to the invaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seqenenre Tao was the pharaoh who ruled southern Egypt in the late 17th dynasty, roughly between 1,558 and 1,553 BC. That was a troubled time. The Hyksos (whose name in ancient Egyptian was Heqau-khasut, \u201cthe rulers of foreign lands\u201d) occupied the northern part of Egypt and took Avaris (present-day Tell el Dabaa) as their capital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}