The Quarrel of Apepi and Seqenenre: A Four-Part Blog Series

Around 1203 BCE, a treasury scribe named Pentaweret copied a story set three centuries earlier, when Egypt was divided between Hyksos kings in the north and Theban kings in the south. It’s a tale we can excavate: its cities are real sites, and the body of one of its characters survives with his battle wounds.