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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

which lasted for almost two centuries. They moved with their families and all their
belongings through the lands, where far from everyone received them with open
arms. Often they had to stop for many years to regain forces or to force their way
with weapons in hand through tribes hostile to them. In the course of time they be-
came nomadic tribes which later historians will call the Hyksos. At the end of the
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18 to the beginning of the 17 centuries B.C. they conquered Ancient Egypt, the
country of Artificial Mountains. The Hyksos governed there for about one hundred
and ten years and only a part of them went south, to the land of Kush, which is men-
tioned in the Old Testament as a new Eden (Fig. 7).

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