The Amalekites were progenitors of separate Arab tribes. The Amalekites had at least a partial seat at Petra and the country about the head of the Red Sea till near the year 700 B.C., when they were driven thence probably in a southern direction. Mahomedan legend speaks of Amalekite tribes as the earliest inhabitants both of Medina and Mecca, and of the country lying to the south of Syria. The Amalekite [[שם|Lesser Hyksos Shemau]] are associated with the Lesser [[Hyksos]] Aamu invasion of Avaris in Egypt. The [[Kaftorite Nation|Greater HyksosShemau]] Shemau were supposed to have founded the Greek empire after being evicted by the Egyptians () while the Trojan refugees under Aeneas founded Rome.
