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Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia - Hyksos
The Hyksos (Egyptian heka khasewet) were an ethnically mixed group of Southwest Asiatic or Semitic people who appeared in the eastern Nil...   » Read the article

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Hyksos - Under Sekenenra Tao II. The war against the Hyksos began in the closing years of the Seventeenth Dynasty at Thebes. Later New ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Was There A Hyksos Invasion?
Manetho's account of the appearance of the Hyksos in Egypt calls it an armed invasion by a horde of foreign barbarians who met little res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Who Were The Hyksos?
The term "Hyksos" derives from the expression heka khasewet (Rulers of Foreign Lands), used in Egyptian texts like the Turin King List to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Extent And Nature Of Hyksos Rule
The Hyksos kingdom, then, was centered in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt and remained limited in size, never extending south int...   » Read the article