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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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izationwere all but transformed into Egyptians. If, in the time of the native Pharaohs, Asiatic tribes had been drawntowards Egypt, where they were treated as subjects or almost as slaves, fimilly showed, on the evidence of Stern, that it belonged to one of the Apuphis (/(» UidoricalMonu-ment, in the Froreedingso! the Soc. of liibl. Arch., 1881, pp. 97, 98). It is tlius placed in tliu XVIdynasty (WiEDisMANX, JlJijijptischc Geschiehle, jip. 293,294), and the liypothesis is coiilirmed by a nionn-ment of Apophia II. in the aoulli of Egypt, at Geheleiu (Dahkssy, Notes el liemarques, § xxx., in theIieew:il de Traoaux, vol. xii. ;). 26). Tlie treatise had been composed nnder Anienenihait III. ((iRir-FiTii, The lihind Malliematical Papyrus; in the Pruceedimjs of the 8oc. of l!ihl. Aich., vol. xiv., 1891,pp. 3G, 37). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a pliotograph by Nftville; of. N.wili.k, Buhaatis, pi. xii. Cr in regard to these Asiatic emigrants, Maspero, Dawn of Cioilizatinn, pp. •168-471.
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TUE BROKEM STATUE OF KHIANI, IN THE GIZEII MUSEUM. 02 rilE HTKSoS IN EGYPT. the attraction which she possessed for them must have increased in inten-sity under the shepherds. They would now find the country in the hands ofmen of the same races as themselves—Egyptiauised, it is true, but not to suchan extent as to have completely lost their own language and the knowledge oftheir own extraction. Such immigrants were the more readily welcomed,since there lurked a feeling among the Hyksos that it was necessary tostrengthen themselves against the slumbering hostility of the indigenouspopulation. The royal palace must have more than once opened its gates toAsiatic counsellors and favourites. Canaanites and Bedouin must often havebeen enlisted for the camp at Avaris. Invasions, famines, civil wars, all seemto have conspired to drive into Egypt not only isolated individuals, but wholefamilies and tribes. That of the Beni-Israel, or Israelites, who entered thecountry about this time, has sin

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