The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, were not foreign invaders, but a group who rose to power from within, according to a new study. The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th ...

It is widely believed that, 3,600 years ago, the ancient Egyptian pharaohs were usurped by an invading force known as the Hyksos. However, new research claims the Hyksos people were actually a group ...

Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx around 2,500 BC – around a thousand years before the Hyksos Dynasty. Around 1638 BC, a foreign dynasty ruled in Egypt for the first ...

The Hyksos were always displayed as foreign invaders who brought chaos when they invaded Egypt. Juan Aunion / Alamy Stock Photo A foreign dynasty, known as the Hyksos, ruled the northern parts of ...

Important new discoveries at the Tel Habuwa dig east of the Suez Canal shed light on the campaign by Ahmose I (c.1550–1525 BC) against the Hyksos invaders A team of Egyptian archaeologists digging at ...

Scholars and heritage specialists will gather in downtown Cairo on 5 December for a major academic conference exploring how ...

A mysterious dynasty of foreigners may not have invaded and taken control of ancient Egypt as was long thought. Rather, the ethnic group known as the Hyksos seems to have seized power from within ...

05:19, Thu, Jul 16, 2020 Updated: 13:23, Thu, Jul 16, 2020 The truth behind the human remains was revealed by the journal PLOS ONE. The Hyksos, a mysterious nomadic people from the Levant, were ...

There is evidence that ancient Egyptian soldiers would sever the right hands of foes and present them to the Pharaoh. That evidence comes in the form of tomb inscriptions of prominent warriors, as ...

The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, were not foreign invaders, but a group who rose to power from within, according to a study published July 8, 2020 in the open-access ...