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Tombos Stela

The Tombos Stela is a large rock-cut victory stela of the Egyptian king Thutmose I, carved in his regnal Year 2 at Tombos in Nubia near the Third Cataract.

Treasurer (Ancient Egypt)

The treasurer of ancient Egypt, whose title imi-r ḫtmt means "overseer of sealed things", was a high court official controlling incoming palace goods, expeditions, and building projects.

Turin Erotic Papyrus

The Turin Erotic Papyrus (Papyrus Turin 55001) is a fragmentary Ramesside Egyptian papyrus in the Museo Egizio, Turin, showing satirical animal scenes and twelve erotic scenes with captions.

Turin King List

The Turin King List, also called the Turin Canon, is a hieratic Egyptian papyrus listing rulers and their reign lengths, now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.

Turin Papyrus Map

The Turin Papyrus Map, also called the Turin Gold Mining Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian map of the Wadi Hammamat gold-mining district, drawn around 1150 BC.

Turin Strike Papyrus

The Turin Strike Papyrus records the work stoppages of the tomb builders of Deir el-Medina over unpaid rations in year 29 of Ramesses III, around 1158 BCE.

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun (Tutankhaten), 18th Dynasty pharaoh 1336–1327 BCE, restored Egypt's old religion after Akhenaten; his nearly intact tomb KV62, found by Howard Carter in November 1922, made him Egypt's most famous king.

Tutankhamun's mummy

Tutankhamun's mummy, the body of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh found in tomb KV62 in 1922, still kept in the Valley of the Kings; examined by X-rays, the 2005 CT scan, and contested 2010 DNA studies of his family and pathologies.

Tutankhamun's trumpets

Tutankhamun's trumpets are a bronze and a silver trumpet from the 18th Dynasty reign of Tutankhamun, found in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Tutu (Egyptian chamberlain)

Tutu (Ṭutu) was an Egyptian chamberlain at the court of Akhenaten in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and his tomb at Amarna.

Tuya

Tuya, also called Mut-Tuya, was the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Seti I and mother of Ramesses II, buried in the Valley of the Queens.

Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt

The Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as Dynasty 20, was the last dynasty of the New Kingdom, ruling from about 1186 to 1069 BCE.

Twosret

Twosret, also spelled Tausret or Tawosret, was a female pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the last ruler of the 19th Dynasty, who reigned about 1191–1185 BC.

Tyti

Tyti was a royal wife of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, identified as a wife of Ramesses III and buried in tomb QV52 in the Valley of the Queens.

Useramen

Useramen, also Useramun, was a vizier of ancient Egypt in the early 18th Dynasty, succeeding his father Ahmose Amethu under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III; he is known from Theban tombs TT 61 and TT 131.

Userhat (royal scribe)

Userhat was a royal scribe of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served Amenhotep II and probably Thutmose IV, accounting for bread supplies and Amun's herds, known from his painted Theban tomb TT56.

Usermontu (vizier)

Usermontu, also written Usermont, was a vizier of Upper Egypt in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, serving under Tutankhamun and still in office under Horemheb, attested in Theban tombs.

Usersatet

Usersatet (Wesersatet) was viceroy of Kush, the official who governed Nubia for Amenhotep II in the mid-18th Dynasty, attested by Year 23 of the reign.

Valley of the Kings (وادي الملوك)

The Valley of the Kings (وادي الملوك) in Egypt is where New Kingdom pharaohs were buried in rock-cut tombs near Luxor from about 1550 to 1069 BC.

Viceroy of Kush

The Viceroy of Kush, also known as the Overseer of the Southern Lands, was the ancient Egyptian official who governed Nubia during the New Kingdom, from about 1550 to 1069 BC.

Victory stela of Amenhotep II

The Victory stela of Amenhotep II, also called the Memphis stela, is a hieroglyphic Egyptian inscription recording Amenhotep II's Asiatic campaigns in regnal years 7 and 9.

Wadjmose

Wadjmose was a prince of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a son of King Thutmose I who died during his father's reign without reaching the throne, and is known from the El Kab tomb of his tutor Paheri.

Wah (estate manager of Meketre)

Wah was an ancient Egyptian official of the early Middle Kingdom who served as estate manager on chancellor Meketre's Theban estate, buried nearby in Western Thebes.

War of the High Priest

The War of the High Priest, also called the War of the High Priest of Amun, was Panehsy's suppression of High Priest Amenhotep at Thebes around 1089 BCE.

Webensenu

Webensenu, also written Websenu, was a prince of Egypt's Dynasty 18 and a son of the pharaoh Amenhotep II, known from funerary equipment in tomb KV35.

Wenennefer (High Priest of Osiris)

Wenennefer was High Priest of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt, under Ramesses II, holding the office for about 35 years; his family held it for five to six generations.

Wentawat (Viceroy of Kush)

Wentawat was an Egyptian official of the late 20th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, called King's Son of Kush, and also held priestly titles at the Ramesseum.

Wilbour Papyrus

The Wilbour Papyrus is a hieratic administrative papyrus of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty recording a land survey of Middle Egypt in Year 4 of Ramesses V, held by the Brooklyn Museum.

Wilbour Plaque

The Wilbour Plaque is a small limestone sunk-relief plaque showing Akhenaten and Nefertiti, carved in Egypt around 1352–1336 BCE and now in the Brooklyn Museum.

Will of Naunakhte

The Will of Naunakhte is a legal document from Deir el-Medina in which the workwoman Naunakhte disinherited children who failed to care for her in old age, c. 1142 BC.