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From 'Egypt's Golden Empire' by Joyce Tyldesley (a book which proved to be not nearly as dramatic as it promised. But then, it was published in 2001, and I have Discovery Channel...)

'Avaris, sacked and abandoned at the end of the Hyskos era, was to be resurrected as a trading post and military base. Ahmose set about building an impressive royal city incorporating a fortified palace decorated with Minoan ... wall paintings, including bull-leaping scenes... So similar are the scenes in style, that it seems that Ahmose must have been employing Minoan artists to decorate his palace. This raises a host of questions which the Austrian archaeologist [Prof] Bietak is [trying] to answer by ... excavation of ... Tell el-Daba... Why should Ahmose have wished to decorate his palace in Cretan, rather than Egyptian, Royal style? Did he have a special reason for celebrating Egypt's link with Crete...?'

Links concerning Prof Bietak: http://www.bibleorigins.net/RamesesMapAvaris.html

http://www.sciem2000.info/Egypt/abstract/bietak.html

Links concerning Prof Tyldesley:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/research_staff/tyldesley.htm

Too tried to keep on searching, but I am quite excited. I really ought to do some more Ancient Greek revision (I have just realised that there is a diary entry for an exam on Sophocles' Electra this Thursday... ah, well done Sappho, I said to myself *shakes head*...)