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Armant Stela
The Armant Stela is a rose-granite stela of pharaoh Thutmose III erected in the temple of Montu at Armant, found in 1936-1937 and now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III
The Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III were at least seventeen Egyptian expeditions into Syria and Palestine over twenty years, beginning with the victory at Megiddo and reaching the Euphrates.
Astarte and the Insatiable Sea
Astarte and the Insatiable Sea, also called the Astarte Papyrus, is an Egyptian mythological tale in which the goddess Astarte negotiates with the hostile Sea.
Athribis Stela
The Athribis Stela is a royal Egyptian inscription from Athribis in the Nile Delta, recording the Libyan attack on Egypt in Merneptah's fifth regnal year.
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.
Bakenkhons
Bakenkhons, also written Bakenkhonsu, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes under Ramesses II, serving about 70 years, the last 27 as High Priest; his autobiographical block statues record his career year by year.
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.
Battle of Djahy
The Battle of Djahy was a land battle in which the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses III defeated the Sea Peoples in his eighth regnal year, around 1176 BC.
Battle of the Delta
The Battle of the Delta, or Battle of the Nile Delta, was a naval battle in which Ramesses III defeated the Sea Peoples around 1176 BC.
Beautiful Festival of the Valley
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley, or Beautiful Feast of the Valley, was an annual Theban festival in which Amun's statue crossed the Nile to visit mortuary temples.
Bek (chief sculptor)
Bek, also spelled Bak, was the chief royal sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten, active c. 1353–1336 BC during the Amarna period, and son of the sculptor Men.
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.
Ben-Azen
Ben-Azen, Egyptian name Ramses-em-per-Ra, is a supposedly high-ranking New Kingdom official under Ramesses II, Merenptah, and Ramesses III, proposed since the 1970s as a model for the biblical Moses.
Bentresh Stela
The Bentresh Stela, also called the Bakhtan Stela, is a sandstone stela in the Louvre telling how the god Khonsu healed the princess Bentresh of Bakhtan.
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.
Book of Caverns
The Book of Caverns is a New Kingdom funerary text of ancient Egypt describing the sun god Ra's nightly journey through six caverns of the netherworld, or Duat.
Book of Gates
The Book of Gates is a New Kingdom Egyptian royal funerary text describing the sun god's nightly journey through the netherworld, divided into twelve serpent-guarded gates.
Book of Nut
The Book of Nut, anciently the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars, is an Egyptian astronomical text first attested at Abydos in the 13th century BCE.
Book of the Dead of Qenna
The Book of the Dead of Qenna is a New Kingdom funerary papyrus of a Theban merchant named Qenna, the longest manuscript in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Book of the Earth
The Book of the Earth is an ancient Egyptian royal funerary composition of Dynasties 19–20, decorating royal sarcophagus chambers with scenes of the sun god's voyage through the underworld.
Book of the Heavenly Cow
The Book of the Heavenly Cow is an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom, first attested in Tutankhamun's tomb, recounting humanity's rebellion against the sun god.
Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten
The Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten, also called the Amarna boundary stelae, are sixteen rock-cut stelae around Amarna marking the limits of the capital Akhenaten founded.
Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III
The Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III is a small bronze statuette in the Louvre showing the Egyptian pharaoh as a reclining sphinx, dated by inscription to 1479–1425 BC.
Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh
The Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh was the royal archive and scriptorium at Akhetaten, Egypt's short-lived capital, where the Amarna letters, some 382 Akkadian cuneiform tablets, were found.
Campaigns of Ahmose I in Nubia
The campaigns of Ahmose I in Nubia were military operations of Egypt's first 18th Dynasty king, c. 1539-1514 BC, that restored Egyptian rule over Lower Nubia.
Campaigns of Amenhotep II in Syria-Palestine
The campaigns of Amenhotep II in Syria-Palestine were Egyptian expeditions in regnal Years 7 and 9, suppressing rebellion in Syria and Palestine through conquest and mass deportation.
Campaigns of Seti I in Canaan and Syria
Seti I of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty campaigned in Canaan and Syria early in his reign, from about 1290 BCE, fighting the Shasu and capturing Kadesh.
Campaigns of Thutmose I in Nubia and Syria
The campaigns of Thutmose I in Nubia and Syria were Egyptian expeditions of the Eighteenth Dynasty king (ca. 1504–1492 BC), reaching Kurgus in Nubia and the Euphrates.
Campaigns of Thutmose III in the Levant
Roughly seventeen campaigns led by Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III into Canaan and Syria, beginning with the siege of Megiddo around 1457 BC and culminating in a crossing of the Euphrates against Mitanni.