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Construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1
The construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1 built huge mud-brick elite tombs at North Saqqara during Egypt's First Dynasty, mainly under Djet, Den, and Adjib.
Coptos Decrees
The Coptos Decrees are Old Kingdom royal decree stelae found at the temple of Min at Coptos, issued by kings from Pepi I to Neferkauhor.
Coregency Stela
The Coregency Stela is an Egyptian stela from Abydos whose inscription pairs Amenemhat I and Senusret I, dated Year 30 and Year 10 as if equivalent.
Curse of the pharaohs
Curse of the pharaohs, also called the mummy's curse or curse of Tutankhamun: a modern legend from 1920s press coverage of the 1922 tomb discovery, not an ancient inscription; epidemiology shows no excess deaths among those exposed.
Dagi (vizier)
Dagi was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, serving as treasurer and vizier under Mentuhotep II and Mentuhotep III around 2010–1988 BC, and buried in tomb TT 103 at Thebes.
Dahshur (دهشور)
Dahshur (دهشور, Dashur) is an Egyptian pyramid field 35 km south of Cairo, part of the Memphis necropolis, known for Sneferu's Bent and Red Pyramids and Middle Kingdom pyramids of Amenemhat II, Senwosret III, and Amenemhat III.
Dahshur boats
The Dahshur boats are full-size wooden funerary boats buried beside pharaoh Senwosret III's pyramid complex at Dahshur, Egypt, during the Twelfth Dynasty in the 19th century BC.
Dakhamunzu
Dakhamunzu, also known as Dahamunzu, is the name Hittite records give an Egyptian queen who asked King Šuppiluliuma I for a son in marriage, probably Tutankhamun's widow Ankhesenamun.
Darius II
Darius II, born Ochus and called Nothus, was King of Kings of Persia from 424 to 404 BC and the last Achaemenid pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-seventh Dynasty.
Debehen
Debehen, also spelled Debhen or Debeheni, was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian court official and priest under King Menkaure, buried in mastaba G 8090 at Giza.
Decree of Canopus
The Decree of Canopus, also called the Canopus Decree, is a trilingual priestly decree issued at Kanopos near Alexandria in 238 BC honoring Ptolemy III.
Decree of Memphis
The Decree of Memphis (Memphis Decree) is a priestly synod decree issued at Memphis in March 196 BC honoring the 13-year-old Ptolemy V, best known from the Rosetta Stone.
Decree of Nectanebo I (inscription)
The Decree of Nectanebo I, also known as the Decree of Saïs, is an Egyptian temple-endowment decree of 380 BC issued by Pharaoh Nectanebo I.
Decree of Neferirkare at Abydos
The Decree of Neferirkare at Abydos is an Old Kingdom Egyptian royal decree of King Neferirkare, inscribed on a stela and concerned with labor discipline.
Decree of Pepi I (Dahshur)
The Decree of Pepi I (Dahshur Decree of Pepi I) is a 6th Dynasty royal decree exempting Sneferu's pyramid town at Dahshur from corvée and taxes.
Decree of Ptolemy VIII (118 BC)
The Decree of Ptolemy VIII of 118 BC is a cluster of 46 royal ordinances issued by Ptolemy VIII and two queens, opening with a general amnesty.
Dedumose I
Dedumose I, also known as Dudimose I, was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Second Intermediate Period, counted as the eleventh king of the Sixteenth (Theban) Dynasty.
Dedumose II
Djedneferre Dedumose II was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known mainly from a Gebelein stela and listed as the twelfth king of the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty.
Dedusobek Bebi
Dedusobek Bebi was an Egyptian high official of the late 13th Dynasty who held the office of Great Scribe of the Vizier and is known from a stela in the Louvre.
Deir el-Bahari
Deir el-Bahari (دير البحري, 'Northern Monastery') is a Theban mortuary temple site on Luxor's west bank, holding the terraced temple of Hatshepsut, the Eleventh Dynasty temple of Mentuhotep II, and the Amun temple of Thutmose III.
Deir el-Medina strikes
The Deir el-Medina strikes were work stoppages by the royal tomb builders of Deir el-Medina in Thebes in the 1150s BC, over unpaid grain rations, the first documented strike in history.
Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum, also Demetrius Phalereus, was an Athenian statesman and Peripatetic philosopher, a pupil of Theophrastus, who governed Athens from 317 to 307 BC.
Demotic (Egyptian)
Demotic (demotikos; Egyptian sX n Sat), the popular cursive script and language stage of Egyptian derived from hieratic, used from the 7th century BC to AD 452, appears on the Rosetta Stone and was deciphered via Coptic by Young and Champollion.
Demotic Chronicle
The Demotic Chronicle (Chronique démotique) is an Egyptian prophetic text in Demotic script that foretells the bad ends of Late Period kings and condemns Persian rule, surviving on a papyrus in Paris.
Den seal impressions
The Den seal impressions are clay and mud sealings bearing the Horus name of Den, a First Dynasty king of Egypt, found in his Abydos tomb and at Saqqara.
Den's campaigns against the Bedouin
Den's campaigns against the Bedouin were First Dynasty Egyptian expeditions led by King Den against eastern desert nomads, recorded on ivory labels and Sinai rock reliefs.
Dendera zodiac
The Dendera zodiac is a circular sandstone ceiling relief from the Hathor temple at Dendera, Egypt, carved around 50 BC and now held by the Louvre.
Depiction of Hatshepsut's birth and coronation
A relief cycle on the Portico of Birth at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, carved c. 1473–1458 BC, showing her divine birth by Amun-Re and coronation.
Diary of Merer
The Diary of Merer, also called the Wadi al-Jarf Papyri, is the oldest papyrus archive found in Egypt, a logbook recording boat crews ferrying Tura limestone to Khufu's Great Pyramid.
Didyme (mistress of Ptolemy II)
Didyme was an Egyptian mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 3rd-century-BC Alexandria, described as very beautiful and known almost solely from Ptolemy VIII's Memoirs and a possible epigram by Asclepiades.