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 ...

In particular, the 18th dynasty is often associated ... took control of Lower Egypt around 1650 BCE, establishing the 15th and 16th dynasties. From Avaris, located in the eastern Nile Delta ...

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 in ...

Sumptuous objects tell the story of chinoiserie in a New York exhibition — though its feminist thesis is tendentious ...

Falling on the 15th day after the spring equinox ... shared his cultural perspective. "In Egypt, we prepare ritual offerings and special foods for tomb visits, and plant symbolic vegetation ...

Although Arabian medicine spread with Islam, its rulers were also keen to absorb the wisdom of other cultures, especially the Greco-Roman culture preserved in Egypt and the Near East. They sought ...

Born in the Qing dynasty and dying under Communist rule ... inhabitants of modern-day Belgium who revolutionized the art between the 15th and 17th centuries, in terms both of technique and ...

Jan van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece, a 15th-century masterwork the Nazis had ... 3,000 years old but just as beautiful as when she lived in the 18th Dynasty. I lifted her out and put her on a pedestal ...

After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...