Ruler
Seqenenre Tao
King of the Seventeenth Dynasty at Thebes
c. 1560 BCE
Approximate date.
Biography
A Theban king who died violently; his mummy still bears deep head wounds. He is thought to have been killed in the conflict with the Hyksos.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Seqenenre’s mummy bears severe head wounds showing a violent death.
- Sahar N. Saleem, Zahi Hawass (2021) “Computed Tomography Study of the Mummy of King Seqenenre Taa II: New Insights Into His Violent Death” Frontiers in Medicine 8: 637527 doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.637527