Burial practices Evidence for distinct Hyksos burial practices in the archaeological record include burying their dead within settlements rather than outside them like the Egyptians. While some of the tombs include Egyptian-style chapels, they also include burials of young females, probably sacrifices, placed in front of the tomb chamber. There are also no surviving Hyksos funeral monuments in the desert in the Egyptian style, though these may have been destroyed. The Hyksos also interred infants who died in imported Canaanite amphorae. The Hyksos also practiced the burial of horses and other equids, likely a composite custom of the Egyptian association of the god Set with the donkey and near-eastern notions of equids as representing status.
Burial practices Evidence for distinct Hyksos burial practices in the archaeological record include burying their dead within settlements rather than outside them like the Egyptians While some of the tombs include Egyptian-style chapels they also include burials of young females probably sacrifices placed in front of the tomb chamber There are also no surviving Hyksos funeral monuments in the desert in the Egyptian style though these may have been destroyed The Hyksos also interred infants who died in imported Canaanite amphorae The Hyksos also practiced the burial of horses and other equids likely a composite custom of the Egyptian association of the god Set with the donkey and near-eastern notions of equids as representing status