The Hyksos Invade Kemet: 1786



Semitic people who overran the Middle Kingdom and brought horses and horse-drawn chariots to Kemet. They also improved the bows (as in “bow and arrow”). In 1550 they were thrown out of Egypt by a native Egyptian family from Luxor.


The Hyksos Invade!

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