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Quotes About Hyksos

The nuclear threat. So quaint." "It's like, if only. Right?" "The climate deal makes nukes look kind of sweet. Like being scared of cannons." "Slingshots." "A Hyksos recurve bow." "Canaanite sickle-swords.
~ Lydia Millet
Thut-mose III opened the series of military campaigns in Asia by an expedition against the former fortified places of the Hyksos. The feeling of insecurity produced by the foreign occupation was long in disappearing. It was in order to make Egypt invulnerable to external aggression that Thut-mose III proceeded to a series of conquests that ended in the Empire.
~ Mircea Eliade