id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9045 Apepi - Wikipedia .html text/html 2440 498 80 Apepi (also Ipepi; Egyptian language ipp(i)) or Apophis (Greek: Ἄποφις; regnal names Neb-khepesh-Re, A-qenen-Re and A-user-Re) was a ruler of Lower Egypt during the Fifteenth Dynasty and the end of the Second Intermediate Period that was dominated by this foreign dynasty of rulers called the Hyksos. Rather than building his own monuments, Apepi generally usurped the monuments of previous pharaohs by inscribing his own name over two sphinxes of Amenemhat II and two statues of Imyremeshaw.[16] Apepi is thought to have usurped the throne of northern Egypt after the death of his predecessor, Khyan, since the latter had designated his son, Yanassi, to be his successor on the throne as a foreign ruler.[17] He was succeeded by Khamudi, the last Hyksos ruler. A Sphinx of Amenemhat III reinscribed in the name of Apepi, one of the so-called "Hyksos Sphinxes" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9045.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9045.txt