Название: Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period
Автор: Anna-Latifa Mourad
Издательство: Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN: 178491133X
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 500
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt is characterised by the destabilisation of the Egyptian state. It is also recognised as the time in which the aptly named ‘rulers of the foreign lands’, or Hyksos, extended their control over parts of Egypt. But, who are these rulers and where did they come from? This book provides a new appraisal of the circumstances leading to Hyksos rule. Utilising theories on ethnicity and cultural mixing, it investigates the nature and effects of Egyptian-Levantine contact from the Middle Kingdom to the early Second Intermediate Period, and reassesses the Egyptian concept of the other.