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Hyksos
Hyksos (from Egyptian, ‘rulers of foreign lands’) Invaders, probably from Palestine, who ruled Lower Egypt and part of Upper Egypt from
c.1674 BC. Their power lasted until
c.1550 BC, when they were overthrown by a rebellion started by the Egyptians of Thebes. The introduction of the horse and chariot was attributed to them. Egyptian remained the official language.
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The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives...Anthropology abgehaltenen Seminars uber die Hyksos. E. D. Oren: Introduction and Overview...als Herausgeber eine Ubersicht uber die Hyksos-Problematik und umerisst die Inhalte...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Sex, death, sorcery and child sacrifice.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 5/8/2001; ; 689 words
; ...pharaohs ruled the Upper Kingdom, and Hyksos kings the Lower Kingdom. It s the story...the evil Pharaoh Naja and equally evil Hyksos King Trok; it s also the story of Nefer s love for the Hyksos princess Mintaka. This is a stirring tale...
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Sex, death, sorcery and child sacrifice
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 5/8/2001; ; 585 words
; ...pharaohs ruled the Upper Kingdom, and Hyksos kings the Lower Kingdom. It s the story...the evil Pharaoh Naja and equally evil Hyksos King Trok; it s also the story of Nefer s love for the Hyksos princess Mintaka. This is a stirring tale...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Four new temples discovered in Sinai.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 4/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...inscriptions on the temples' walls relate to the Hyksos -- Asiatic peoples who invaded Egypt...the god Set, who was worshipped by the Hyksos. This is the first of its kind," Abdel Maqsoud, told AFP on Tuesday. The Hyksos, whose name means "foreign rulers...
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Lessons In Black Studies #24
Newspaper article from: The Culvert Chronicles; 11/15/2007; ; 428 words
; ...Introduction To Black Studies The Middle Kingdom #4 The Hyksos Foreigners gravitate to prosperous countries. Egypt...from foreign lands. The Greeks changed the name to Hyksos. The Hyksos tried to adapt Egyptian ways, and tried to adopt Egyptian...
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Film Claims Earthquake, Not Moses, Parted the Red Sea.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 4/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...the Children of Israel were in fact the Hyksos tribes that ruled Egypt from 1640-1540...paintings from the period that show the Hyksos as extremely similar to the biblical descriptions...found in a dig at the site of the assumed Hyksos capital. On the basis of the new dating...
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The exodus enigma
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...years, and he started to expel the hated Hyksos (the Semitic "kings of foreign lands...with expelling the Israelites with the Hyksos, as the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius...BCE, which is the time that the Semitic Hyksos invaded Egypt. Then however it does not...
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LANKA WAS IN EGYPT, SAYS DARBHANGA PROFESSOR
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/24/2007; 601 words
; ...Kiskindhya was in Mesopotamia and Ram was a Hyksos King (1709 BC to 1635 BC). Ayodhya...connects Lord Ram with King Ramasses of Hyksos pedigree. "Ramasses (Ramoja = Son of...Ja'= born of Rama) claimed the Hyksos pedigree, and it is well known that the...
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Archaeology team will restore pharaonic fort
Newspaper article from: The Arab American News; 7/19/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...of a horse in Egypt. It dates from the Hyksos invasion of pharaonic Egypt in around...confirms pictures suggesting that the Hyksos, probably invaders from Asia, brought...Pharaonic Egypt was pretty powerful so the Hyksos, who were few in number, had to have...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Slave Moses never saw the Pyramids; answers to correspondents.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/20/2001; 700+ words
; ...in Canaan. The Egyptians knew them as Hyksos or Desert Princes. They seem to have...century BC Egyptian priest, wrote that the Hyksos established their capital at Avaris...BC, the Egyptians revolted against the Hyksos, drove some out, and enslaved others...
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Hyksos
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hyksos a people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile delta c. 1640 bc. They formed the 15th...
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Remote Sensing
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...later spread to a variety of peacetime uses. Some examples include the adoption of the chariot by the Egyptian army after the Hyksos invasion (ca. 1670 b.c.); the Assyrian introduction of logistics in an effort to supply imperial troops (ca. 800 b...
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Hatshepsut
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in having restored the sanctuaries in that part of Egypt, which she claimed had been neglected since the time of the alien Hyksos rulers. Among the many officials on whose support Hatshepsut must have depended at least initially was one Senmut, whom she...
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Shechem
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Excavations in the 20th cent. indicate a village there c.3500 BC Shechem's greatest period began c.1700 BC when the Hyksos rebuilt it. According to patriarchal narratives in the Book of Genesis, it was visited by Abraham, and Jacob built an altar...
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Amasis I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amasis I , d. c.1545 BC, king of ancient Egypt (c.1570-1545 BC), founder of the XVIII dynasty. He drove the Hyksos out of the Nile delta and pursued them into Palestine. His name also appears as Ahmose.
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