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hyksos |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hyksos \Hyk"sos\, n. [Gr. ?, fr Egypt. hikshasu chiefs of the Bedouins, shepherds.] A dynasty of Egyptian kings, often called the {Shepherd kings}, of foreign origin, who according to the narrative of Manetho ruled for about 500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.
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