Semitic Asians who came to power in Egypt near the end of the Middle Kingdom were Hyksos.
Who was Hyksos?
- For many years, experts held the Hyksos, a mixed Semitic and Asian ancestry people, to be the first foreign dynasty that entered Egypt and ruled the northeastern Nile Delta.
- Parts of ancient Egypt was dominated by the Hyksos for about a century during a precarious period known as the Second Intermediate Period in the 15th Dynasty.
- According to the conventional storyline, the nomadic Hyksos were invaders from a distant region. In actuality, the Hyksos were a group that gained power domestically rather than as foreign invaders.
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