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Avaris

Also known as Tell el-Dab'a

Avaris was an ancient city in the north-eastern Nile Delta, at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a. From the late Middle Kingdom a large population of Levantine origin settled there, and it became the seat of the Fourteenth Dynasty and then the capital of the Hyksos kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty, until Ahmose I captured it around 1550 BCE. Excavations since 1966 have found Minoan-style wall paintings there.

Avaris
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Middle Kingdom of EgyptDecline

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Fourteenth Dynasty of EgyptFifteenth Dynasty of EgyptSeventeenth Dynasty of Egypt

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Avaris. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/avaris
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