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Bust of Ankhhaf
The Bust of Ankhhaf is a painted limestone portrait of Old Kingdom prince and vizier Ankhhaf, found in his Giza tomb in 1925 and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bust of Cleopatra
The Bust of Cleopatra is a Ptolemaic royal portrait sculpture in granitic stone, dated c. 47–30 BC and probably depicting Cleopatra VII, held in the Royal Ontario Museum.
Butehamun
Butehamun, also written Butehamon, was a Theban scribe of the royal necropolis who oversaw the reburial of the New Kingdom pharaohs' mummies in secret caches.
Buto-Maadi culture
The Buto-Maadi culture, also called the Maadi culture, was a Chalcolithic archaeological culture of Lower Egypt, named after the sites Maadi and Buto, lasting from about 3900 to 3200 BC.
Buyuwawa
Buyuwawa was a Libyan tribal leader remembered as head of the family line of Great Chiefs of the Ma that produced Shoshenq I, founder of Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty.
Byblos expedition of Sneferu
The Byblos expedition of Sneferu was a seaborne trading venture sent by Sneferu, first king of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, to Byblos, returning 40 ships filled with cedar wood.
Caesarion
Caesarion (Ptolemy XV Caesar, Καισαρίων), son of Cleopatra VII and nominally Julius Caesar, last Ptolemaic king of Egypt 44–30 BC; co-regent, 'King of Kings' at the Donations, executed by Octavian in August 30 BC.
Cairo Stone
The Cairo Stone is a group of basalt fragments in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo bearing parts of the royal annals of ancient Egypt, complementing the Palermo Stone.
Callicrates of Samos
Callicrates of Samos, also known as Kallikrates, was a Greek admiral who served as supreme commander of the Ptolemaic navy for about twenty years under Ptolemy II.
Campaign of Amenemhat I against the Libyans
The campaign of Amenemhat I against the Libyans was a punitive Egyptian expedition against the Tjehenu of the western desert around 1962 BC, led by his son Senusret I.
Campaign of Cambyses II against Kush
The campaign of Cambyses II against Kush was a Persian advance south from newly conquered Egypt into Nubia in 524/523 BC, reaching the First Cataract without conquering Kush.
Campaign of Kamose against the Hyksos
The campaign of Kamose against the Hyksos, also called Kamose's war against Apepi, was a Theban offensive of about 1555–1550 BC that destroyed Hyksos strongholds in Middle Egypt.
Campaign of Mentuhotep II against Nubia
The campaign of Mentuhotep II against Nubia was an Egyptian military expedition into Lower Nubia under the Eleventh Dynasty pharaoh Mentuhotep II, reaching Buhen at the Second Cataract.
Campaign of Psamtik II against Kush
The campaign of Psamtik II against Kush, also called the Nubian campaign of Psammetichus II, was an Egyptian invasion of Kush in Nubia in 593 BC.
Campaign of Senusret I in Nubia
A military campaign by the Egyptian king Senusret I into Lower Nubia around 1953 BC, led by General Montuhotep and reaching the Second Cataract of the Nile.
Campaign of Siamun to Philistia
A disputed Egyptian military campaign to Philistia or Gezer attributed to Siamun, a 21st Dynasty pharaoh of Tanis, usually dated within 990–950 BC and argued over because of 1 Kings 9:16.
Campaign of Tefnakht against the Delta and Middle Egypt
Tefnakht's campaign against the Delta and Middle Egypt was the late eighth-century BC expansion of Tefnakht of Sais, which besieged Herakleopolis and provoked Piye's Nubian invasion.
Campaign of Weni against the Sand-Dwellers
The Campaign of Weni against the Sand-Dwellers was a series of five Egyptian military expeditions under King Pepi I, led by the official Weni the Elder.
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 Amenemhat II
The campaigns of Amenemhat II were Egyptian military and trading expeditions to the Levant, Nubia, Sinai, and Punt, recorded in an annal inscription from Memphis.
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 Mentuhotep II against the Herakleopolitans
The campaigns of Mentuhotep II against the Herakleopolitans were the civil war in which the Theban king defeated the Tenth Dynasty and reunified Egypt around 2040 BC.
Campaigns of Mentuhotep II in Nubia
The campaigns of Mentuhotep II in Nubia were Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, called Wawat, under Mentuhotep II, the Theban king who reunified Egypt after the First Intermediate Period.
Campaigns of Senusret I in Nubia
The campaigns of Senusret I in Nubia were early Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, culminating in a year-18 campaign that reached the Second Cataract.
Campaigns of Senusret III in Nubia
The campaigns of Senusret III in Nubia were Egyptian expeditions of the later nineteenth century BC that fixed a fortified border at Semna, past the Second Cataract.
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.
Cannibal Hymn
The Cannibal Hymn is a pair of Old Kingdom spells in Unas's pyramid at Saqqara, in which the dead king eats the gods to absorb their powers.
Canopic jar
Canopic jars are ancient Egyptian vessels storing the mummified liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines under the Four Sons of Horus; used from Hetepheres's era, later replaced by dummy jars.