Hyksos people, thought to have come from somewhere in West Asia, reigned as Egypt’s 15th dynasty from around 3,650 to 3,540 years ago. Although later, homegrown Egyptian pharaohs described these ...

Most archaeologists speculate that the Hyksos were foreigners, coming from the Near East to invade and conquer Egypt. But a new theory suggests that, while the Hyksos were of Near Eastern origin ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Popular lore suggests the Hyksos, a mysterious group of foreign invaders, conquered the Nile Delta around 1638 B.C. and remained in power until 1530 B.C. But ...

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art [CC0]) (CN) — For centuries, scholars believed the Hyksos, a people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent, were the first foreign dynasty to invade Egypt and conquer the ...

Egypt had been conquered by invaders, a people Manetho called the heqa khasut, foreign rulers—a term that later evolved into the Greek “Hyksos.” Thought to originate from an area in modern ...

Although the Hyksos were described by the Ptolemaic Egyptian historian Manetho as “invaders of an obscure race” who conquered the region by force, recent research has shown that they descended ...

Although many Egyptians did not want to fight, war became inevitable after Kamose’s men intercepted a message from the Hyksos to the Nubians, inviting them to join forces and conquer what was ...