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Fortresses tagged “hyksos”

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🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell

Sharuhen (Tell el-Ajjul)

Middle Bronze to Egyptian New Kingdom (2000–1150 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian

Hyksos rampart fortress (15 m thick) besieged 3 years by Ahmose.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress

Tell el-Retaba (Wadi Tumilat Fortress)

Second Intermediate to Saite (c. 1800–525 BCE; Hyksos–Ramesside fortress) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian (Ramesside)

Wadi Tumilat gate fortress claimed as biblical Pithom/Succoth, with Hyksos glacis and Ramesside Tjeku fortress of Seti I (Pr-Atum). Excavated by Naville, Petrie and Polish mission...

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell

Tell el-Yahudiya North (Leontopolis Annex)

Hyksos to Ptolemaic (1720 BCE – 73 CE) · Hyksos / Egyptian / Ptolemaic Jewish (Onias)

Northern spur of the classic double-tell of Yahudiya, with Hyksos rampart extension and Onias-period Jewish cemetery north of the temple platform where Petrie found inverted pots a...