In class today we looked at some pictures from the tomb of Khnumhotep II, who was a governor of a province in Egypt under the reign of Pharoahs Amenemhat II & Senusret II, of the Twelfth Dynasty (1929 - 1878 BCE).
This period was significant because it was about 200 years before the Hyksos invasion of Egypt, which marked the first time an outside, non-African people had ruled over Egypt. In the centuries prior to the Hyksos invasion, there was immigration to Egypt from western Asia. The Hyksos are theorised to have been Semites/Caananites from Palestine, so these immigrants a few hundred years earlier would likely have been their distant ancestors.
One of the tomb artworks depicts this immigration. Probably they came to the area Khnumhotep was the governor of, hence the decision to include their arrival in his tomb.
The important thing to note here is that the immigrants are clearly shown as being much lighter skinned than the Egyptians. You can tell who's an immigrant and who's not pretty easily: immigrants are bringing shyt with them carried on donkeys, local Egyptians are not. They're also wearing different kinds of clothing.
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