ABSTRACT
Unfortunately there are no monuments whereby we can correct or modify these figures. The number of years assigned to the rule of the XlIIth and XIVth dynasties seems excessive. The Hyksos appear to have made their way from the countries in and to the west of Mesopotamia into Egypt. They joined with their countrymen, who had already settled in the Delta, and were able to defeat the native kings; it is thought that their rule lasted 500 years, and that Joseph arrived in Egypt towards the end of this period. The name Hyksos is derived from the Egyptian I ~ I LLI ~ ~ r ~ ~! Qequ Shlllisu, i.e., "princes of the Shasu," or nomad tribes on the east and north-east of Egypt. The principal Hyksos kings of the XVIth dynasty are Apepa I. and Apepa II.; Nubti and the native Egyptian princes ruled under them. Under Se-qenen-Ra, a Theban ruler of the XVIIth dynasty, a war broke out between the Egyptians and the Hyksos, which continued for many years, and resulted in the expulsion of the foreign rulers.
