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Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: rulers and royal family

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Aat (queen)

Aat was a queen consort of ancient Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty and a wife of King Amenemhat III, known from her burial in his pyramid at Dahshur.

Ahmose-Henuttamehu

Ahmose-Henuttamehu was a royal princess of the late 17th Dynasty at Thebes, in the family of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummified relatives were reburied in the Deir el-Bahari royal cache.

Ahmose-Inhapy

Ahmose-Inhapy, also written Ahmose-Inhapi, was a Theban queen of Egypt's late 17th Dynasty, probably a wife of Seqenenre Tao II and a daughter of Senakhtenre Tao I.

Ahmose-Sapair

Ahmose-Sapair, also written Ahmose-Sipair, was a prince of the Theban royal family at the end of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, around 1560 BCE, remembered through a funerary cult lasting five centuries.

Amenemhat I

Amenemhat I, also known as Amenemhet I, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt who founded the Twelfth Dynasty and reigned from about 1991 to 1962 BC.

Amenemhat II

Amenemhat II, also known as Amenemhet II, was the third king of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, ruling for at least 35 years and buried in his pyramid at Dahshur.

Amenemhat III

Amenemhat III, also known as Amenemhet III, was a Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt who reigned over 45 years and built the Labyrinth at Hawara.

Amenemhat IV

Amenemhat IV, also known as Amenemhet IV or Maakherure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, its last male ruler, reigning around 1808–1799 BC and succeeded by Sobekneferu.

Amenemhat V

Amenemhat V, whose throne name was Sekhemkare, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty in the early Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1796 to 1793 BC.

Amenemhat VI

Amenemhat VI, also known as Amenemhet VI, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom, dated about 1788–1785 BC.

Ameny Qemau

Ameny Qemau was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty who reigned about two years around 1790 BC, and is known chiefly from his pyramid at south Dahshur, discovered in 1957.

Ammu (pharaoh)

Ammu, also known as Aahotepre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, conventionally the fourth king of the 14th Dynasty, known only from scarab seals and dated around 1760 to 1745 BC.

Anat-her

Anat-her, also written Anat-har or Anather, is a poorly attested ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known from a single scarab and possibly the first 16th Dynasty king.

Apepi

Apepi, also Apophis or Ipepi, was a Hyksos king of the Fifteenth Dynasty who ruled from Avaris around 1585 to 1542 BC and fought the Theban kings Seqenenre and Kamose.

Aperanat

Aperanat, also written Aper-Anati, was a ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period known from a single scarab in the Petrie Museum bearing the title heqa khasut, meaning ruler of foreign lands.

Ashayet

Ashayet, also read Ashait, was a queen consort of Mentuhotep II in Eleventh Dynasty Egypt, buried in a shaft tomb at his Deir el-Bahari temple.

Bebiankh

Bebiankh, throne name Seuserenre, was a king of the Theban 16th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the Turin King List with a 12-year reign.

Bebnum

Bebnum, also read Babnum, was a poorly attested king of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt, a Nile Delta dynasty of the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King-list.

Dedumose I

Dedumose I, also known as Dudimose I, was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Second Intermediate Period, counted as the eleventh king of the Sixteenth (Theban) Dynasty.

Dedumose II

Djedneferre Dedumose II was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known mainly from a Gebelein stela and listed as the twelfth king of the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty.

Djedankhre Montemsaf

Djedankhre Montemsaf is an ancient Egyptian king, recorded under the throne name Djedankhre, conventionally placed in the Theban 16th Dynasty around the 17th century BC.

Djedkheperew

Djedkheperew, also known as Djedkheperu, was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the late Middle Kingdom, placed as the dynasty's 17th ruler and reigning about 1772 to 1770 BC.

Djehuti (pharaoh)

Djehuti, also rendered Djehuty, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period with the prenomen Sekhemre Sementawy, usually assigned to the Theban 16th Dynasty and credited with a three-year reign around 1648–1645 BC.

Haankhes

Haankhes, also written Ha-ankhes, was an Egyptian queen of the early 17th Dynasty at Thebes around 1670/1650 BC, known from stelae naming her as the mother of Prince Ameni.

Henhenet

Henhenet, also spelled Henenet, was a minor royal wife and Hathor priestess of Egypt's Mentuhotep II, buried at Deir el-Bahri; her sarcophagus is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Heribre

Heribre, also written Heribra, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King List, compiled under Ramesses II.

Hetepti (king's mother)

Hetepti was an Egyptian royal woman of the late Twelfth Dynasty, known as the mother of King Amenemhat IV and attested by a single inscription at Medinet Madi.

Hor (pharaoh)

Hor, also known as Hor Awibre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty around 1777 BC, known for his shaft tomb at Dahshur and its gilded wooden ka statue.

Hotepibre

Hotepibre Qemau Siharnedjheritef was an obscure Egyptian king of the Thirteenth Dynasty who reigned around 1791–1788 BC and is attested by the Turin Canon, scarab seals, and a mace found at Ebla in Syria.

Iaib

Iaib, also read Ibiaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty with the throne name Wahibre, known chiefly from the Turin King List and a scarab in Los Angeles.