Editing Hyksos (section)

===Egyptian presence in the Levant===
It is "often accepted" that Egypt established an empire in Canaan at the end of the wars against the Hyksos.{{sfn|Höflmayer|2015|p=191}} Campaigns against locations in Canaan and Syria were conducted by [[Ahmose I]] and [[Thutmose I]] at the beginning of the [[Eighteenth Dynasty]], as recorded in the tombs of [[Ahmose, son of Ebana]] and [[Autobiography of Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet|Ahmose pen-Nekhebet]]; Thutmose I is also mentioned as having hunted elephants in Syria in inscriptions at the temple of [[Hatshepsut]] at [[Deir el-Bahari]].{{sfn|Höflmayer|2015|pp=195–196}} [[Thutmose III]] is known to have campaigned widely, conquering the ''"[[Shasu]]"'' [[Bedouins]] of northern [[Canaan]], and the land of [[Retjenu]], as far as [[Syria]] and [[Mittani]] in numerous military campaigns circa 1450 BC.{{sfn|Gabriel|2009|p=204}}{{sfn|Allen|2000|page=299}} However, Felix Höflmayer argues that there is little evidence of other campaigns and that "there is no evidence that would suggest such a scenario" as an Egyptian empire during the Eighteenth Dynasty.{{sfn|Höflmayer|2015|p=202}} As regards claims that the campaigns in the Near East were spurred on by Hyksos rule, Thomas Schneider argues that "the empire building started with a delay of two generations and seeing a direct nexus may be as much a historical fallacy as it would be to link the fall of the Soviet Union in [1991] to the end of the Second World War in 1945, two generations earlier."{{sfn|Schneider|2018|p=78}}

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| footer = ''"[[Retjenu]]"'' Syrians bringing tribute to [[Tuthmosis III]], in the tomb of [[Rekhmire]], c. 1450 BC (actual painting and interpretive drawing). They are labeled "Chiefs of Retjenu".<ref>{{harvnb |Hawass|Vannini |2009|p=120|ps=. "The foreigners of the fourth register, with long hairstyles and calf-length fringed robes, are labeled Chiefs of Retjenu, the ancient name tor the Syrian region. Like the Nubians, they come with animals, in this case horses, an elephant, and a bear; they also offer weapons and vessels most likely filled with precious substance."}}</ref>{{sfn|Zakrzewski|Shortland|Rowland|2015|p=268}}
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