Hyksos Invasion of Egypt

So said the Egyptian priest Manetho in 330BCE about the Hyksos invasion that took place some one thousand five hundred years before his own time. Savage evidence of severed limbs in grave pits seems to support his claim.  

Manetho also wrote that the Hyksos escaped to Syria where they built Jerusalem. Hekataios of Abdera similarly wrote in 300BCE that Jewish tradition of the Exodus came from the expulsion of the Hyksos. 

He maintained the Israelites were the Hyksos. Although the Exodus is an article of faith, modem archeologists are still unable to confirm or deny the Biblical traditions. We still do not know whether the Exodus was mythical or it actually occurred as described in the Bible. If it did occur, it could be the Hyksos expulsion (as Hekataios maintains) or a later event. 

however, well recognized that the Hyksos conquerors of Egypt were overwhelmingly Semitic speaking Levant Asiatics, because most of the Hyksos names are Semitic. For example, Jacob exists as both a Hyksos Prince Mr wsr hr, Yaqob) and the Biblical Palestine 

The main war force of the Hyksos was Indo-Hittite and more particularly Indo-Iranian Hurrian. These were the Haxa from Eastern Iran. We know less about this military force because of their peculiar characteristic of discouraging written records. 

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The subject embodies a mix of religion and politics that has fermented throughout history, occasionally erupting. The earliest traces we have of this are with first dynasty Egyptian Pharaohs. The trail tracks the devastating Hyksos invasion of Egypt and the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. 

In contrast, the Jews objectively documented their story through wide study of the Bible and candid writings of the great Jewish alchemists. Jewish alchemy seemed to start at the Hyksos invasion of Egypt in 1801BCE when the Israelites participated in the royal secrets of the Philosophers Stone, known to the Old Kingdom Pharaohs. 

Old Kingdom Pharaohs and priests knew of the Philosophers Stone in Egypt from at least the time of Imhotep around 2800BCE. The Israelites learnt of it in Egypt when they took part in the Hyksos invasion following provocation by the Pharaoh Sesostris I. 

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