Hyksos: The Foreign Kings of Egypt

"e;Hyksos"e; was never the name of a people. It was a title — heka khasut, "e;ruler of foreign lands"e; — held by a handful of kings, garbled into Greek a thousand years after the last of them died, and then mistaken, for two thousand years, for the name of a barbarian horde.The story Egypt told is the one most people still know: in the days of a weak king, invaders out of the east swept into the ...