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Ahhotep I

Ahhotep I, also known as Ahhotpe, was an Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of Seqenenre Tao and mother of Ahmose I, active around 1560-1530 BC.

Ahmose (wife of Thutmose I)

Ahmose was a Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I, an 18th Dynasty king of Egypt's New Kingdom, best known as the mother of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

Ahmose-Meritamon

Ahmose-Meritamon, also Ahmose-Meritamun, was an Egyptian queen of Dynasty 18, daughter of Ahmose I and Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, buried in tomb TT358 at Deir el-Bahari.

Ahmose-Nefertari

Ahmose-Nefertari, also known as Ahmose-Nofretari, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, wife of Ahmose I and mother of Amenhotep I, later deified at Thebes.

Ahmose-Sitamun

Ahmose-Sitamun was a princess of Egypt's early Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of pharaoh Ahmose I, known chiefly from a large statue erected for her at Karnak.

Ahmose-Sitkamose

Ahmose-Sitkamose, also written Ahmose Satkamose, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, most likely a daughter of Kamose and wife of Ahmose I.

Amenemhat (crown prince, son of Thutmose III)

Amenemhat was the eldest son and heir apparent of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, attested at Karnak, who died young so that Amenhotep II succeeded instead.

Amenemope (prince)

Amenemope, also written Amenemopet, was a prince of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty, listed among the sons of Pharaoh Amenhotep II and dated by implication to around 1420 BC.

Amenemopet (prince)

Amenemopet was a prince of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, known only from lists of the king's children, alongside brothers including Thutmose IV.

Amenemopet (princess)

Amenemopet was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty, probably a daughter of Thutmose IV, known from her tutor's Theban tomb and a reburied royal mummy.

Amenherkhepshef (prince)

Amenherkhepshef was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III and Queen Tyti, buried in tomb QV 55 in the Valley of the Queens at Thebes.

Amenia (Egyptian queen consort)

Amenia was the first recorded wife of Horemheb, the general who became the last king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty; she died before his accession and never bore a queen's title.

Amenmesse

Amenmesse, also written Amenmeses, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, about 1203–1199 BC, generally read today as a rival king controlling Thebes during Seti II's reign.

Amenmose (son of Thutmose I)

Amenmose was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 18th Dynasty, the eldest son and heir of Pharaoh Thutmose I, who predeceased his father and never took the throne.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses II)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also known as Amun-her-khepsef, was the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who served as an army general and overseer of the chariotry and was buried in tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses III)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also written Amenherkhepshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III, buried in tomb QV55 in the Valley of the Queens.

Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit

Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit, meaning "Ankhesenpaaten the Younger", was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, generally thought to be the daughter of princess Ankhesenpaaten, though her parentage is disputed.

Ay (pharaoh)

Ay, also known as Itnetjer-ay and by the throne name Kheperkheperure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty who ruled for about four years, ca. 1327–1323 BC, immediately after Tutankhamun.

Baketaten

Baketaten, also spelled Beketaten, was an Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty, generally identified as the youngest daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, known from reliefs in the tomb of Huya at Amarna.

Baketwernel

Baketwernel was a queen of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, conventionally identified as a Great Royal Wife of Ramesses IX, whose reign is dated around 1128–1110 BC.

Beketamun

Beketamun, meaning "servant of Amun", was a king's daughter of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, known from two objects, one dated to the reign of Thutmose III.

Bintanath

Bintanath, also spelled Bentanath or Bintanat, was the eldest daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Isetnofret, and later a great royal wife of Egypt's 19th Dynasty.

Duatentopet

Duatentopet, also known as Tentopet, was a queen of ancient Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses IV and probably the mother of Ramesses V, buried in tomb QV 74.

Henutempet

Henutempet was an Egyptian royal woman of the mid-18th Dynasty, known from funerary cones at Dra Abu el-Naga and proposed to be a Mitanni princess married to Thutmose IV.

Henutmire

Henutmire was an Egyptian queen of the 19th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses II, buried in tomb QV 75 in the Valley of the Queens.

Henuttaneb

Henuttaneb, the Egyptian princess and "lady of every land," was the daughter of pharaoh Amenhotep III. She is known from monuments dating to the 14th century BC.

Henuttawy (daughter of Ramesses II)

Henuttawy was a princess of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, a daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari, known from the Abu Simbel processions and tomb QV 73.

Henutwati

Henutwati, or Ta-Henutwati, was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty, thought to be the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses V around 1150 BC.

Iaret

Iaret was a royal woman of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, a wife of Thutmose IV attested around 1400 to 1390 BCE on rock monuments in Nubia and Sinai.

Irsu

Irsu, also written Iarsu, is a Syrian said in the Great Harris Papyrus to have seized power in Egypt at the end of the 19th Dynasty.