Hyksos: The Jews in Egypt

A History of Mankind (30)

The word Hyksos, never used in Egypt, is a Greek-derived modern coinage deriving from the Egyptian expression “heqau khaswet”: "rulers of foreign[1] lands," commonly used in Egyptian texts to describe foreign chieftains and, later, Nubian warlords operating in south of the country as well as Asiatic warlords in the north.

The word has come to describe As…