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Djeseretnebti
Djeseretnebti is a name of disputed reading and gender on an ivory tablet found in Sekhemkhet's unfinished pyramid at Saqqara, sometimes identified as a Third Dynasty queen consort.
Djet
Djet, also Wadj, was a pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty who reigned around 3000–2990 BCE between Djer and Den, buried in Tomb Z at Abydos with about 174 retainers.
Djoser
Djoser (Netjerikhet), first king of Egypt's Third Dynasty, Old Kingdom pharaoh who built the Step Pyramid at Saqqara with his architect Imhotep, the earliest large stone structure and first pyramid in Egypt.
Djutmose
Djutmose, also written Dhutmose or Djehutymes, was Scribe of the Necropolis at Deir el-Medina in Thebes around 1100 BCE, known from the Late Ramesside Letters.
Donations of Alexandria
The Donations of Alexandria was a ceremony held in Alexandria in 34 BC, at which Mark Antony granted vast eastern territories to Cleopatra VII and her children.
Dositheos (son of Drimylos)
Dositheos son of Drimylos was a Ptolemaic official who served as eponymous priest of Alexandria and Ptolemais, attested in a papyrus dated to year 25 of Ptolemy III.
Double Falcon
Double Falcon is the conventional name for a putative ruler of Egypt's Dynasty 0, around 3200–3000 BC, attested only by five serekhs surmounted by two facing falcons.
Dream Stela
The Dream Stela, also called the Sphinx Stela of Thutmose IV, is a granite inscription between the Great Sphinx's paws at Giza, erected around 1400 BC.
Dream Stela of Tanutamun
The Dream Stela of Tanutamun is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording a dream of two serpents that legitimized the last king of Egypt's 25th Dynasty.
Dryton
Dryton (Greek Δρύτων), son of Pamphilos, was a Greek cavalry officer and moneylender at Pathyris in Upper Egypt in the second century BC, known through his family archive.
Dryton and Apollonia archive
The Dryton and Apollonia archive is a bilingual Greek–Demotic family archive from Pathyris (Gebelein) in Upper Egypt, kept by a Cretan cavalry officer and his wife in the 2nd century BC.
Duaenhor
Duaenhor was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, probable son of Kawab and Queen Hetepheres II and grandson of King Khufu, buried in mastaba G 7550 at Giza.
Duaenre
Duaenre was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian prince and vizier, a son of king Khafre and queen Meresankh, buried in mastaba G 5110 in the Western Cemetery at Giza.
Duat
Duat (dwꜣt) is the ancient Egyptian otherworld, the region of night, passage, and regeneration traversed by the dead and the nightly sun. Attested from the Pyramid Texts onward, it hosts Osiris, the solar journey, and the judgment of the heart, and resists a single fixed definition.
Duatentopet
Duatentopet, also known as Tentopet, was a queen of ancient Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses IV and probably the mother of Ramesses V, buried in tomb QV 74.
Duathathor-Henuttawy
Duathathor-Henuttawy, also written Henettawy, was an Egyptian royal woman of the early Twenty-first Dynasty, wife of the high priest Pinedjem I and mother of King Psusennes I.
Durbar of Year 12
The Durbar of Year 12, or Year 12 durbar of Akhenaten, was a ceremonial reception of foreign tribute held at Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten around 1340 BC.
Dynastic race theory
Dynastic race theory, sometimes called the Dynastic Race, is the discredited claim that an invading eastern master race brought civilization to ancient Egypt, proposed by Flinders Petrie in 1939.
Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, also called the Archaic Period, spans the First and Second Dynasties, from Egypt's unification around 3100 BC to about 2686 BC.
Ebers Papyrus
The Ebers Papyrus is a large ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, bought in Thebes by Georg Ebers in 1872/73 and held by Leipzig University Library since 1873.
Ebony label of Den
The ebony label of Den is a small inscribed ebony plaque from King Den's First Dynasty tomb at Abydos, now held in the British Museum.
Edwin Smith Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Papyrus, also called the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian surgical trauma treatise with 48 injury cases, copied around 1600 BC.
Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
The Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty are two hieroglyphic inscriptions at Karnak and the Ramesseum recording the peace accord between Ramesses II and Hattusili III.
Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical text on leather, bought in Egypt by Henry Rhind in 1858 and held in the British Museum, preserving 26 unit-fraction equalities written in duplicate.
Egyptian pyramids
Egyptian pyramids: Old Kingdom royal tombs (2686–2181 BC), from Djoser's Step Pyramid by Imhotep to Khufu's Great Pyramid (146.5 m); distinct from later, smaller Nubian pyramids.
Egyptian revolt against Darius I
The Egyptian revolt against Darius I, also called the Great Revolt of the Egyptians against Darius I, was an uprising in Persian-ruled Egypt beginning in 486 BC and crushed by Xerxes around 485/484 BC.
Egyptian synodal decrees
Egyptian synodal decrees, also called priestly decrees, are collective enactments of priests in Ptolemaic Egypt, issued between 238 and 161 BC and inscribed on stelae, most famously the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptian temple
Egyptian temple (hut-netcher, "god's house"): sacred building housing cults of gods, the king, or the blessed dead, centered on a cult image served daily by priests, with public contact mainly through festivals; most surviving temples are Ptolemaic.
Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty
The Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty was the settlement of around 1400 BC by which Thutmose IV of Egypt and Artatama I of Mitanni ended hostilities over Syria.
Egyptology
Egyptology is the academic study of ancient Egypt's archaeology, language, history, religion, and art, from about 7000 BC to the early middle ages. Founded on Champollion's 1822 hieroglyph decipherment via the Rosetta Stone, it now spans Nubia and debates over decolonization.