Asian nomads called Hyksos invade Egypt around …
Years: 1773BCE - 1630BCE
Asian nomads called Hyksos invade Egypt around 1720 BCE, ending the Middle Kingdom.
Links with Kush are severed, and forts along the Nile are destroyed.
A culturally distinct indigenous kingdom emerges at Kerma, near present-day Dongola, to fill the vacuum left by the Egyptian withdrawal.
Locations
Groups
- Egyptians
- Kushitic Civilization
- Nubians
- Nubian culture, ancient
- Kerma, Kingdom of
- Egypt (Ancient), Middle Kingdom of
- Egypt (Ancient), Second Intermediate Period of
- Hyksos, Kingdom of
