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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 15th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt (1640-1530 BC) was a dynasty established by a group called the Hyksos. A paper summarizing the results of research on a large number of `` severed hands '' found in ...

POOLE, ENGLAND—The Hyksos people, thought to have originated in West Asia, may have come to power in Egypt some 3,650 years ago by marrying into local royal families, according to a Science News ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --The Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II, an ancient Theban ruler and one of the last kings of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, was executed by a gang of attackers, according to a new study. The full ...