Nadene Goldfoot
Popular lore suggests the Hyksos, a mysterious group of foreign invaders, conquered the Nile Delta around 1638 B.C. and remained in power until 1530 B.C. But written records of the dynasty are scarce, and modern archaeologists have found few material signs of the ancient military campaign. Now, new research lends weight to an alternative theory on the Hyksos’ origins. As Colin Barras reports for Science magazine, chemical analysis of skeletons found at the Hyksos capital of Avaris indicates that people from the Levant—an area encompassing the countries surrounding the eastern Mediterranean—immigrated to Egypt centuries before the takeover. The Hyksos dynasty, then, was likely the result of an immigrant uprising, not a hostile outside invasion. The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, center on variations in strontium isotopes present in 75 skeletons’ tooth enamel. Strontium, a harmless metal found in water, soil and rocks, enters the body primarily through food. Comparing isotope ratios found in enamel, which forms between ages 3 and 8, with those present in a specific region, can help scientists determine whether an individual grew up there, as levels “vary from place to place,” writes Ariel David for Haaretz. Around half of the skeletons were buried in the 350 years before the Hyksos’ takeover; the rest were interred during the dynasty’s reign. Per the paper, the researchers found that 24 of the pre-1638 skeletons were foreign-born, pointing toward significant immigration prior to the supposed invasion. Doesn't this fit with our history of Abraham, his father and wife leaving Ur for Canaan?
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or (more rarely) another river that cannot carry away the supplied sediment. It is so named because its triangle shape resembles the Greek letter Delta. The size and shape of a delta is controlled by the balance between watershed processes that supply sediment, and receiving basin processes that redistribute, sequester, and export that sediment. The size, geometry, and location of the receiving basin also plays an important role in delta evolution.
River deltas are important in human civilization, as they are major agricultural production centers and population centers. They can provide coastline defense and can impact drinking water supply. They are also ecologically important, with different species' assemblages depending on their landscape position.
Pharaohs would have lived at Cairo. The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. Pharaoh Narmer/MenesSummary: Israelites
led by Jacob/Israel migrated to Egypt when hit by a terrible drought when their crops were destroyed. They had been a people coming from Abraham
who lived in Ur of the Chaldees near the delta of the Euphrates River of Mesopotamia. They settled in Egypt’s Nile Delta in the city
of Avaris, where they were identified as the Hyksos people, a major group of immigrants who also lived in
this city. They did so well tending
their sheep that they multiplied faster
than Egyptians, scaring the pharaoh who thought they could turn on them
and take over, which the Hyksos managed to do at some point, but at the same
time, Jacob/Israel’s descendants were made slaves of Egypt, set to building the
storage cities of Pithom and Rameses, also in the Nile Delta. Passover’s 9 plagues were remnants of the
Volcano erupting on the Greek island of Santorini with their effect which also
took place on the island as well, with the 10th most serious plague
of the 1st born sons dying being the most mysterious one. A possible cause could have been something
to do with circumcision, an act Egyptians practiced, which then could have only
been with 1st borns, and in a ceremony using either a special knife,
food or drink connected with the act that could have poisoned the 1st
borns. Circumsion is the only act that
would have identified males from females.
Israelites were not circumcising yet, and would receive this act while
on the Exodus from Moses’s teachings. While we don’t know enough about circumcision
in Egypt, we do know they practiced it.
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