Editing Hyksos (section)

===Ancient historians===
[[File:Ring scarab - Pharaoh exhibit - Cleveland Museum of Art (cropped).jpg|thumb|Blue glazed steatite scarab in a gold mount, with the cartouche of Hyksos ruler [[Khyan]]: <hiero>N5:G39-<-x-i-i-A-n->-S34-I10:t:N17</hiero> - "Son of Ra, Khyan, living forever!"]]
In his epitome of [[Manetho]], Josephus connected the Hyksos with the Jews,{{sfn|Assmann|2003|p=198}} but he also calls them Arabs.{{sfn|Mourad|2015|p=9}} In their own epitomes of Manetho, the [[Late antique]] historians [[Sextus Julius Africanus]] and [[Eusebius]] say that the Hyksos came from [[Phoenicia]].{{sfn|Mourad|2015|p=9}} Until the excavation and discovery of [[Tell El-Dab'a]] (the site of the Hyksos capital [[Avaris]]) in 1966, historians relied on these accounts for the Hyksos period.{{sfn|Mourad|2015|p=10}}{{sfn|Flammini|2015|p=236}}