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Egypt Before the Time Of: Asia

In due time, came rushing headlong across Western Asia, the first migration of nations whereof history has retained the remembrance. Swollen by all the nomadic tribes that it had gathered to it on the way, it fell suddenly upon the valley of the Nile.

Whence came this human avalanche? Josephus seems to indicate Chaldea; Volney speaks of Yemen. Judging by the force of its impetus and the length of time it took for the disappearance of its straggling remnants, by the name accursed that it left in the memory of Egypt, and above all, by the avenging hate that, in later times, repeatedly impelled the Egyptian armies beyond the river Tigris and the Armenian Taurus, we think that it is in Central Asia, the ever-seething cauldron and workshop whence the commissioned races and the scourges of Divine wrath emanate, that we must look for the starting point of the Hycsos.

Written history contains but a few words to sustain our opinion, yet they are formal and characteristic. "Before there were any Medes and Assyrians," says Justinus, in Book II., chapter iii., the Scythians, i. e., a wandering race coming from the north, invaded Asia and held it in subjection for fifteen hundred years."