The last Middle Kingdom dynasty was when the Hyksos people swept into Egypt. They conquered the Nile Delta area known as Lower Egypt, becoming the 15th Dynasty. Upper Egypt, meanwhile, was split ...

(See also: Archaeologists uncover more than 800 tombs from the Middle Kingdom.) Ruling Egypt as its 15th dynasty, the Hyksos occupied swathes of northern and central Egypt for the next century.

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

who led the mission in cooperation with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in a statement. The findings date from the time of the 15th dynasty (1650-1550 BC) to the powerful 18th ...

The findings date from the time of the 15th dynasty (1650-1550 BC) to the powerful 18th dynasty (1550-1292 BC). Egypt on Wednesday unveiled new archaeological discoveries, including the 4,000-year ...