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Evidence from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period Ägypten und Levante 27 (2017), 381-402 Anna-Latifa Mourad
The Second Intermediate Period is exemplified by the division of Egypt into several dynasties. As current research proposes, those who held administrative control in the north were of Near Eastern origin, their power likely stemming from commercial ventures initiated in the preceding Middle Kingdom when dynamic trade networks spanned the region. The resulting cultural encounters were complex and multifaceted, with various groups and ideas crossing borders. Yet, shifts in power from the Twelfth Dynasty to the Second Intermediate Period would have feasibly affected such encounters. The evidence examined here focusses on Levantine elements in Nubia: the presence of people of Near Eastern ancestry and products of Levantine influence that crossed the southern borders of Egypt.
Egyptology, Ancient Near East, Nubian-Egyptian Relations, Hyksos, Second Intermediate Period (Egyptology), Middle Bronze Age, Ancient Nubia, Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom (Egyptology), 1) cultural interconnections and trade (Egypt and Levant), Ancient Egyptian interconnections
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^ Wow. So Asiatic contact and influence in Nubia was more extensive than previously thought. This really shouldn't come as a surprise considering that the Kerman Kushites tried to cut a deal with the Hyksos to divide Egypt between the two of them.
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