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Carnarvon Tablet
The Carnarvon Tablet, also called Carnarvon Tablet I, is a wooden writing-board found at Thebes in 1908, inscribed with an account of King Kamose's war against the Hyksos.
Cats in ancient Egypt
Cats in ancient Egypt: tamed Felis silvestris kept for pest control and as pets from Predynastic Hierakonpolis onward, associated with the goddess Bastet, and mummified by the millions as votive offerings at Bubastis and Saqqara.
Chariots of Tutankhamun
The Chariots of Tutankhamun are six dismantled chariots found in his tomb (KV62) at Thebes, dating to about 1332–1323 BCE, the only complete chariots from a single Egyptian burial.
Charmion
Charmion, also spelled Charmian, was one of Cleopatra VII's two attendants who died with the queen at Alexandria in 30 BC, remembered for her last words in Plutarch's account.
Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus
The Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Chester Beatty VI, is an Egyptian medical papyrus from Deir el-Medina and the earliest known treatise on anorectal diseases.
Chief of the Libu
Chief of the Libu was an Egyptian title for the leader of the Libu, a Libyan tribal people settled in Egypt's western Delta during the Third Intermediate Period.
Chronicle of Prince Osorkon
The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon, or Osorkon Chronicle, is a hieroglyphic inscription at Karnak in which Prince Osorkon narrates his suppression of a Theban rebellion.
Cilles
Cilles was a Macedonian commander serving Ptolemy I who, after the Battle of Gaza, was surprised and captured by Demetrius Poliorcetes at Myus in 311 BC, then released with gifts.
Cineas (minister of Ptolemy VIII)
Cineas (Κινέας) was a Ptolemaic general and minister who, with Comanus, directed the government and defense of Alexandria in 169 BC during Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt.
Civil war between Apries and Amasis
The civil war between Apries and Amasis, or Revolt of Amasis, was an Egyptian conflict of 570–567 BC in which the general Amasis overthrew Pharaoh Apries.
Civil War of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII
The Civil War of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII was a dynastic conflict between the brother kings of Ptolemaic Egypt, fought from about 170 to 163 BC.
Cleomenes of Naucratis
Cleomenes of Naucratis, also known as Kleomenes of Naucratis, was a Greek financial administrator whom Alexander the Great made effective master of Egypt's finances by 331 BC.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (69–30 BC), last Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt of Macedonian Greek ancestry; partner of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony; defeated at Actium in 31 BC, died by suicide in 30 BC; her tomb has never been found.
Cleopatra I
Cleopatra I Syra was a Seleucid princess who married Ptolemy V and ruled Ptolemaic Egypt for her son Ptolemy VI until her death in 176 BC.
Cleopatra II
Cleopatra II of Egypt was a Ptolemaic queen from the 170s BC to 115 BC who married her brothers Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII and briefly ruled Alexandria alone.
Cleopatra III
Cleopatra III of Egypt was a Ptolemaic queen who ruled from 141 to 101 BC alongside Ptolemy VIII and her sons, and was murdered in 101 BC.
Cleopatra IV
Cleopatra IV of Egypt was a Ptolemaic princess and queen consort to Ptolemy IX until 115 BC, later killed in the Seleucid dynastic war in 112 BC.
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena is a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who supposedly co-ruled with Berenice IV in 58–57 BC, though most scholars identify her with Cleopatra V.
Cleruchy
A cleruchy (Greek klerouchia) was the Ptolemaic Egyptian institution by which soldiers received land allotments and served as army reservists, first documented under Ptolemy II Philadelphos.
Co-regency of Amenemhat I and Senusret I
The co-regency of Amenemhat I and Senusret I was a ten-year joint rule of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, begun in Amenemhat's year 20 to secure the succession.
Coffin of Nedjemankh
The Coffin of Nedjemankh, also known as the Gilded coffin of Nedjemankh, is a gold-sheathed Ptolemaic Egyptian coffin (150–50 BC) made for a priest of the ram-god Heryshef.
Coffin Texts
The Coffin Texts are a corpus of 1,185 ancient Egyptian funerary spells inscribed on the coffins of non-royal people, mainly during the Middle Kingdom, descended from the royal Pyramid Texts.
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two 18-meter quartzite statues of Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in Luxor, Egypt, famed for the singing northern statue after the 27 BC earthquake and for ongoing restoration.
Comanus (eparch)
Comanus was a court minister of Ptolemaic Egypt, one of two new ministers who took charge at Alexandria in 169 BC during the Sixth Syrian War.
Commemorative scarabs of Amenhotep III
The commemorative scarabs of Amenhotep III are over 200 large inscribed scarabs from his reign (c. 1390–1352 BC), recording hunts, Queen Tiye, and royal events.
Complaints of Khakheperraseneb
The Complaints of Khakheperraseneb, also spelled Khakheperreseneb, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian lament in which a priest of Heliopolis addresses his own heart about a country overwhelmed by chaos.
Completion of the Red Pyramid
The completion of the Red Pyramid marks the finish, late in the reign of King Sneferu, of the first smooth-sided true pyramid, built at Dahshur near Cairo around 2589 BC.
Conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II
The conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II, around 2055 BC, was the final Theban campaign against the Herakleopolitan dynasty of northern Egypt, ending it and reunifying the country to open the Middle Kingdom.
Conquests of Ankhtifi
The Conquests of Ankhtifi were the campaigns of Ankhtifi, a nomarch of Hierakonpolis during Egypt's First Intermediate Period, recorded in his tomb inscription at Mo'alla.
Construction of the First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab
The First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab are the mudbrick tombs of Egypt's earliest kings at Abydos, ringed by subsidiary graves of sacrificed retainers and paired with funerary enclosures.