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Tale of the Herdsman

The Tale of the Herdsman is a fragmentary Middle Kingdom Egyptian story on Papyrus Berlin 3024, about a herdsman who meets a goddess in the marshes.

Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is an ancient Egyptian story from about 2000 BC, the oldest surviving Egyptian tale, about a shipwreck survivor who meets a magical serpent.

Tati (queen)

Tati was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the Second Intermediate Period, the only queen attested in the 14th and 15th Dynasty seal corpus, likely wife of Sheshi.

Tem (queen of Mentuhotep II)

Tem was a queen of Mentuhotep II, the Theban king who reunited Egypt and founded the Middle Kingdom, buried in his temple complex at Deir el-Bahari.

Teti, son of Minhotep

Teti, son of Minhotep, held a temple office at Coptos in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, dismissed by the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef in Year 3.

Tetiankhkem

Tetiankhkem was a royal prince of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a son of the pharaoh Teti and the queen Khuit, known only from a mastaba at Saqqara.

Tetisheri

Tetisheri, also rendered Teta-shera, was a queen of the Theban 17th Dynasty in sixteenth-century BCE Egypt, mother of Seqenenre Tao and grandmother of Ahmose I.

Theban war of reunification

The Theban war of reunification was the series of campaigns by which Mentuhotep II of Thebes defeated the Herakleopolitan kingdom and reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period.

Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt

The Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 13, Dynasty XIII) was a line of kings ruling from Itjtawy, c. 1782–1650 BC, marked by many short reigns.

Tjan (queen)

Tjan was an Egyptian queen consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty, the only known wife of King Sobekhotep IV, attested by a scarab in the Louvre and flourishing around the mid-18th century BC.

Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt

Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 12): Middle Kingdom dynasty founded by Amenemhat I, ruling c. 1990-1809 BC from Itjtawy, with Senusret III, Amenemhat III's Faiyum works, and queen Sobekneferu as its last ruler.

Ukhhotep (son of Senbi)

Ukhhotep, also known as Ukhhotep I or Wekhhotep, was a provincial governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome during the early Twelfth Dynasty, buried at Meir.

Ukhhotep III

Ukhhotep III, also written Wekhhotep III, was a Twelfth Dynasty governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome, seated at El-Qusiya, buried in rock-cut tomb C1 at Meir.

Wadi el-Hudi inscriptions

The Wadi el-Hudi inscriptions are the stelae and rock-cut texts left by Middle Kingdom amethyst-mining expeditions at Wadi el-Hudi, in Egypt's Eastern Desert near Aswan.

Wahibre Ibiau

Wahibre Ibiau, also known as Ibiau, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned about 10 years, 8 months, and 28 days, around 1712-1701 BC.

Wahka I

Wahka I was a mayor and overseer of priests of the Antaeopolis region during Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, buried in rock-cut tomb 7 at Qaw el-Kebir.

Wahka II

Wahka II was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian nomarch, or provincial governor, at Qau el-Kebir, owner of tomb 18, the largest private funerary complex of the Middle Kingdom.

Wahka III

Wahka III is the conventional name for a third official named Wahka at Qaw el-Kebir, the cemetery of ancient Antaeopolis, toward the end of the Twelfth Dynasty.

Wahneferhotep

Wahneferhotep was a royal prince, titled "king's son", of Egypt's late Middle Kingdom, known from a shabti and miniature coffin held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wazad

Wazad was a king of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, ruling from Avaris in the eastern Nile Delta; his place in the dynasty is uncertain.

Wegaf

Wegaf, also written Ugaf, whose throne name was Khutawyre, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 13th Dynasty, usually placed as its first king, with a reign of a little over two years.

Wepwawetemsaf

Wepwawetemsaf, with the throne name Sekhemra-neferkhau, was a pharaoh of the late Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, attested almost entirely by a single stela from Abydos and possibly a graffito at Beni Hasan.

Westcar Papyrus

The Westcar Papyrus (Papyrus Berlin 3033) is an Egyptian papyrus of wonder tales told at King Khufu's court, copied around 1600 BC and kept in Berlin.

Ya'ammu Nubwoserre

Ya'ammu Nubwoserre was a minor pharaoh of Egypt's 14th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning c. 1780–1770 BC and known only from scarab seals bearing his two names.

Yakareb

Yakareb was a king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC, known only from two crudely cut scarab seals, one in the Petrie Museum.

Yakbim

Yakbim, also known as Sekhaenre Yakbim, was a Second Intermediate Period king of ancient Egypt, placed first among the Fourteenth Dynasty in Ryholt's reconstruction and attested only by inscribed seals.

Yanassi

Yanassi, also known as Iannas, is a royal figure of Egypt's Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty, placed by some scholars between Khyan and Apophis in the 16th century BC, though his kingship is disputed.

Zamonth

Zamonth, also written Zamont and called Resseneb, was a vizier of ancient Egypt under king Amenemhat III at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty; his son Ankhu succeeded him as vizier.

Zatipy

Zatipy, meaning "daughter of Ipy", was an Egyptian woman of the early 12th Dynasty, attested in tomb 14 at Beni Hasan and dated to the reign of Amenemhat I.