[SunkenCiv]

Tomb painting from Beni Hasan, Egypt. -- A figure named Abisha and identified by the title Hyksos leads brightly garbed Semitic clansmen into Egypt to conduct trade. Dating to about 1890 B.C.E., the painting is preserved on the wall of a tomb carved into cliffs overlooking the Nile at Beni Hasan, about halfway between Cairo and Luxor. In the early second millennium B.C.E., numerous Asiatics infiltrated Egypt, some of whom eventually gained control over Lower Egypt for about a century and a half. The governing class of these people became known as the Hyksos, which means "Rulers of Foreign Lands."

[no-to-illegals]

Thought provoking and always leaving more questions than answers when doing the readings.....

[Rocky]

Fascinating. Thanks for your posts.

[Hootowl]

A school of thought that is gaining ground is that the traditional Manethan chronology of Egypt may be off by hundreds of years. Velikovsky suggested this in one of his books and also posited that an unnamed “one” who helped Ahmose drive the Hyksos out of Egypt was Solomon.

[jjotto]

Is it normal to identify Hyksos with Canaanites?

[ml/nj]

group of Asiatics from Avaris

Pretty sure this would line up with things David Rohl has written about.

ML/NJ