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Khenemetneferhedjet III

Khenemetneferhedjet III was a royal woman of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, identified in one reconstruction as a wife of Amenemhat III and buried inside his pyramid at Dahshur.

Kheng Nam Lee

Kheng Nam Lee is a Singapore-based venture investor who founded and led Vertex from 1988 to 2004 and has been a Venture Partner at Granite Asia since 2005.

Khenmes

Khenmes was a high official of ancient Egypt who held the office of vizier during the Thirteenth Dynasty, associated with King Sekhemkare Amenemhat V in the early part of that dynasty.

Khenmet

Khenmet, also written Khnumet, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian royal woman, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II, whose intact tomb with a gold diadem was found at Dahshur in 1895.

Khensa

Khensa is a Kushite royal woman of the early Napatan period, the era of King Piye, whose conquest of Egypt laid the foundations of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty around 747–716 BC.

Oct 22, 2026

Khent (The Fool)

Khent (The Fool) is a historical and political novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, first published in 1880–1881 and set during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, arguing for Armenian self-reliance.

Khentetka

Khentetka, also written Khentetenka, was a queen of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a wife of King Djedefre and mother of at least three of his sons.

Khenthap

Khenthap, also written Khent-hap, was a royal woman of Egypt's early First Dynasty, named in the annals stone as the mother of King Djer around 3050 BC.

Khentii Mountains (Хэнтийн нуруу), northern Mongolian range at the Siberian taiga-steppe boundary; Arctic-Pacific watershed of the Onon, Kherlen, and Tuul rivers, home of Burkhan Khaldun and the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area.

Khentika Ikhekhi

Khentika called Ikhekhi was a vizier of ancient Egypt in the early Sixth Dynasty, serving under Teti and probably Pepi I, buried in a mastaba at Saqqara.

Khentkaus I

Khentkaus I, also written Khentkawes, was an Egyptian queen of the late Fourth and early Fifth Dynasty around 2500 BC, whose two-stepped Giza tomb was called the fourth pyramid of Giza.

Khentkaus II

Khentkaus II was a queen of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, the wife of King Neferirkare Kakai and mother of the kings Raneferef and Nyuserre, known from her pyramid complex at Abusir.

Khentkaus III

Khentkaus III, also known as Khentakawess III, was a previously unknown queen of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, identified in 2015 from inscriptions in a tomb at Abusir.

Khenut

Khenut was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, a wife of King Unas, buried in a double mastaba with queen Nebet at North Saqqara.

Khepri

Khepri (Kheprer, Khepera) is the ancient Egyptian morning-sun god, depicted as a scarab beetle or scarab-headed man; his name means 'he who comes into being'. Unlike Ra (midday) and Atum (evening), he had no dedicated cult, but scarab amulets invoked him for rebirth.

Khera Mound

Khera Mound, an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Bajera Khera, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, recorded by Cunningham; brick foundations, a curved wall, and a kankar architrave. Khera names many such mounds.

Kherei

Kherei of Xanthos was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in southwestern Anatolia during the late fifth and early fourth century BC, known from inscriptions and his silver coinage.

Kheri

Kheri, or Lakhimpur Kheri district (लखीमपुर खीरी), is Uttar Pradesh's largest district, on the Nepal border in the Terai. Known for Dudhwa National Park and its sugarcane economy; population 4,021,243 (2011).

Kheriga

Kheriga (Lycian Χeriga, Greek Gergis) was a dynast of Xanthos in Lycia who ruled around 440 to 400 BC and is known chiefly from the Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos.

Kherlen

Kherlen (Хэрлэн гол), transboundary river of eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China; rises in the Khentii Mountains, runs 1,264 km east into Hulun (Dalai) Lake, its main water source; undammed, grassland steppe basin.

Kherson (Херсон)

Kherson (Херсон), southern Ukrainian port city and capital of Kherson oblast on the Dnipro River; founded 1778 by Catherine II as a fortress and shipyard, first base of the Black Sea Fleet, occupied by Russia March–November 2022 and shelled since.

Oct 22, 2026

Kherson Governorate

Kherson Governorate (Херсонська губернія) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in southern Ukraine, named for its capital and existing from 1803 to 1920.

Kherson Oblast (Херсонська область)

Kherson Oblast (Херсонська область), a southern Ukrainian oblast created 30 March 1944 with capital Kherson; since November 2022 split by the Dnipro River between Ukrainian right-bank control and Russian-occupied left bank.

Kherson Raion

Kherson Raion (Херсонський район) is a raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, created in 2020 with center Kherson; area 3,841.91 km², 10 communities, right bank liberated November 2022, left bank occupied.

Kheruef (TT192)

Kheruef (TT192), also called Senaa, is the large unfinished Theban tomb of Queen Tiye's steward Kheruef, the largest private tomb of Dynasty XVIII, known for its Sed festival reliefs.

Khesari Lal Yadav

Khesari Lal Yadav (खेसारी लाल यादव), born Shatrughan Kumar Yadav in 1986 in Saran, Bihar, is a Bhojpuri film actor and singer with 70+ films and 5,000+ songs, a Bigg Boss 13 contestant, and the RJD's 2025 Chhapra assembly candidate.

Sep 23, 2026

Kheshig

The Kheshig (怯薛) was the imperial household guard of the Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty, founded by Chinggis Khan and serving as the main source of high officials.

Oct 15, 2026

Khesht Oil Field

Khesht Oil Field (خشت) is an onshore oil field in southern Iran, on the Fars–Bushehr border in the Zagros Mountains, which began producing oil in March 2022.

Oct 20, 2026

Kheta

Kheta (Хета) is chiefly a 785 km river in Krasnoyarsk Kray, Russia, the left headstream of the Khatanga; the name also denotes a Magadan Oblast stream, a village, the Egyptian name of the Hittites, and Sanskrit Khetak of Kheda.