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Hyksos

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hyksos [Egyptian,=rulers of foreign lands], invaders of ancient Egypt , now substantiated as the XV-XVIII dynasties. They were a northwestern Semitic (Canaanite or Amorite) people who entered Egypt sometime between 1720 and 1710 BC and subdued the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom. They used Avaris-Tanis in the Nile delta as their capital rather than the Egyptian capital of Thebes. Under their hegemony, which lasted over a century, they established a powerful kingdom that included Syria and Palestine, and maintained peace and prosperity in their territories. They introduced the horse-drawn chariot... Read more

Hyksos
World Encyclopedia Hyksos Invaders, probably from Palestine, of Egypt in the 17th century bc . They are attributed with the first use of horses and chariots. They ruled Egypt from c. 1674 to 1567 bc, as the 15th and 16th dynasties. A native revolt overthrew the Hyskos. Read more

Tanis
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Tanis , ancient city of Egypt, in the eastern delta of the Nile. It is identified with the Hyksos capital, Avaris (XII dynasty), and is called Zoan in the Bible. It was a significant city in the XIX dynasty and was capital of ... Read more

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	(book review) The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2000; KRAUSS, ROLF; 787 words ; The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives ... UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM, 1997. Pp. xxvi + 434, maps, illus. $50. Das Buch enthalt die Akten eines 1992 ... and Anthropology abgehaltenen Seminars uber die Hyksos. E. D. Oren: Introduction and Overview: Einleitend bietet Oren als ... Read more
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	Slave Moses never saw the Pyramids; answers to correspondents. The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/20/2001; 715 words ; ... in Canaan. The Egyptians knew them as Hyksos or Desert Princes. They seem to have gradually ... century BC Egyptian priest, wrote that the Hyksos established their capital at Avaris, later ... BC, the Egyptians revolted against the Hyksos, drove some out, and enslaved others ... Read more
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	Geophysical and palynological investigations of the Tell El Dabaa archaeological site, Nile Delta, Egypt. Antiquity; 12/1/2001; El Beialy, Salah Y. Edwards, Kevin J. El-Mahmoudi, Ahmed S.; 787 words ; ... settling of Asian immigrants in the Delta under the so-called Hyksos, foreign rulers who held sway for over a century during the ... Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BC, Davies & Friedman 1998). The Hyksos had forged a strong power-base in the northeast Delta, an area ... Read more
	The exodus enigma Jerusalem Post; 4/12/2006; STEPHEN ROSENBERG; 787 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 ... Read more
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