Second Intermediate Period

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The Second Intermediate Period was a period of disunity and foreign domination in Egypt between the Middle and New Kingdoms.

Lower Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period was dominated by a Canaanite ruling élite popularly known by the Manethonian term Hyksos, whose kings formed the Fifteenth Dynasty based at Avaris.

Dynasties

• Thirteenth Dynasty
• Fourteenth Dynasty
• Fifteenth Dynasty
• Sixteenth Dynasty
• Seventeenth Dynasty

Bibliography

• von Beckerath, Jürgen [1964], Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, [Ägyptologische Forschungen Heft 23], Glückstadt: J.J. Augustin, 1964.

• Oren, Eliezer D. (ed.) [1997], The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives, [University Museum Monograph 96 / University Museum Symposium Series 8], Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1997. ISBN 0924171464

• Ryholt, Kim S.B [1997], The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1800-1550 B.C. - with an appendix by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, [Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 20], Copenhagen: K.S.B. Ryholt and Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997. ISBN 8772894210

• Williams, Bruce [1975], Archaeology and Historical Problems of the Second Intermediate Period, unpublished PhD dissertation, Department Of Near Eastern Languages And Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1975. html+pdf