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, 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 ...

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 ...

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

When Ahmose (reigned from c1550 – 1525 BC) became king, Egypt was in crisis. It was occupied in the north and threatened in the south. It was a shadow of its former self. But by the time he died, ...

CAIRO, April 28. /TASS/. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced that 110 burials dating back to the Predynastic and Hyksos eras were discovered in northern Egypt. According to ...

CT scans of a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, once suspected to be the victim of a palace assassination, suggest that he was actually executed after being captured in battle in the mid-16th century BCE.

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 ...