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1730 arrival(1st Hyksos)Hyksos, a migration movement of which the consequences were extremely important / in Asia, some time before the appearance of the Hyksos in Egypt. [ Authors admit that Hittites pressed Babyl. around 1925. According to Manetho, it was under Didoumes that produced the ge Asiatic thrust into Egypt. This thrust must have been considerably later than the settlement of the Hyksos d in Egypt. The Stele of « year 400 » has made it possible to fix approximately at 1730 the first appearance of foreigners in the Delta. - So Hyksos first settled Δ then began to conquer Egypt proper. Suppose groups of Asiatics driven back by migration Aryan ones penetrated E. into the Δ. Too weak to expel them, the kings of Egypt. have pretended to ignore them. The newcomers founded capital Avaris and became Egyptianised. This 1st period of settlement. Hyksos prob. lasted a 1/2 cent. from 1730 to 1680 c. Reinforced by other contingents, they organise a state and elect chief: Salatis. It was then that the conquest of E. was undertaken. – Success of the Hyksos chariots. Monuments of 5 Hyksos kings. The king who reigned at Avaris when Hyks. expelled = Apopi (prob. Apopi II, but not certain). From Chian (2nd?) found fragm. vase in Crete and lion at Baghdad. It is supposed that Ch. was chief of an immense empire. But imprudent. [Perhaps only sendings of Ch. to the local kings, as formerly the pharaohs of the XIIth dy.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain