Hycsos
HYKSHOS, (hik'sos), or Shepherd Kings, gs, wandering tribes of HYDE PARK Semitic descent, who conquered the whole of Egypt about 2100 в. c., and were driven out some 500 years afterward.
The only detailed account of them in any ancient writer is a passage of a lost work of Manetho, cited by Josephus. dynasties. dynasties.
It is on the river Tame. It has grown rapidly as a cotton manufacturing cen-