Expulsion of the Hyksos

 

The only monumental notice of the destructions by the Hyksos is in the inscription of Hatshepsut on the front of the rock-cut temple, known as the Speos Artemidos, just south of Beni-Hasan. In this, the queen recites her re-establishment of the Egyptian power and worship.

 

She describes the injuries to the country : « The house of the Mistress of Qasa was fallen in ruin, the earth had covered her beautiful sanctuary, and folk dwelled over her temple.

I cleared it and rebuilt it anew. I restored that which was in ruins, and I completed that which was left unfinished. For there had been Amu in the midst of the Delta and in Havar, and the foreign hordes of their number had destroyed the ancient works ; they reigned ignorant of God Ra. »

 

 

 

© A History of Egypt by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS — 1896