The structure’s style diverges from typical Theban or Hyksos designs, and aligns more with local Abydene traditions. This supports the theory that Abydos kept its own independent authority during this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egyptian rulers were able to hold them off until about 1650 B.C., when the Hyksos, growing more militarily powerful, captured the ancient royal city of Memphis in a decisive victory that brought ...

CLEVELAND — A mysterious foreign dynasty that ruled ancient Egypt for about a century gained power not by force, as often thought, but by marrying into royalty, new evidence suggests.. Hyksos ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

READ MORE: Hyksos people who usurped Egyptian pharaohs were NOT invaders; By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE. Published: 11:21 EDT, 5 April 2023 | Updated: 12:10 EDT, 5 April 2023 .

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.

Archaeologists find 12 severed hands from ancient Egypt The hands may be part of a trophy-taking practice in which the people of Hyksos took the right hands of their enemies.

The recently discovered severed hands were excavated from a site called Tell El-Dab (ancient Avaris) in the courtyard of a palace that seems to have been occupied by the Hyksos Khayan (c. 1700 ...

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 ...