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Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1550–1295 BC), first dynasty of the New Kingdom, founded by Ahmose after expelling the Hyksos; rulers included Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Horemheb.
Eighth Dynasty of Egypt
The Eighth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty VIII) was a line of about 18 short-reigning kings resident near Memphis around 2150–2118 BCE, at the close of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
El-Amra clay model of cattle
The El-Amra clay model of cattle is a Predynastic Egyptian group of four clay cows, made about 3500 BC and excavated in 1900–01 from grave A23 at el-Amra, Upper Egypt.
Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt
The Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty XI, was a Theban royal line, 2130–1990 BC, that reunified Egypt under Mentuhotep II and opened the Middle Kingdom.
Epistates
The epistates (Greek ἐπιστάτης, 'overseer') was a supervisory office of Ptolemaic Egypt: a judicial official under the nome's strategos and a royal overseer of temple finances.
Epistrategos
The epistrategos (ἐπιστράτηγος, epistrategus) was a senior Ptolemaic Egyptian official, best known as governor of the Thebaid in Upper Egypt from the late 3rd century BC.
Erasistratus
Erasistratus of Iulis on Ceos was a Greek physician and anatomist active in the first half of the 3rd century BC, a leading innovator of early Hellenistic medicine in Alexandria.
Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt
Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt was the Neo-Assyrian invasion of 671 BC that defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa, captured Memphis, and made Esarhaddon the first Mesopotamian ruler titled king of Egypt.
Estate of Amun
The Estate of Amun, or Domain of Amun, was the temple economy of the god Amun at Thebes, ruled in practice by its High Priests and God's Wives.
Eudoxus of Cyzicus
Eudoxus of Cyzicus was a Greek navigator from Cyzicus who commanded two royal trading voyages from Ptolemaic Egypt to India in the later 2nd century BC.
Eulaeus
Eulaeus (Greek: Eulaios) was a eunuch of the Ptolemaic court who, with Lenaios, governed Egypt as regent for the boy king Ptolemy VI after Cleopatra I died in 178/177 BC.
Euphrates campaign of Thutmose I
The Euphrates campaign of Thutmose I was a New Kingdom military expedition sent about 1504 BC into northern Syria as far as the Euphrates river.
Euphrates campaign of Thutmose III
The Euphrates campaign of Thutmose III was the pharaoh's eighth campaign, around 1447 BC against Mitanni in northern Syria, crossing the Euphrates with cedar boats hauled 250 miles overland.
Execration texts
Execration texts are ancient Egyptian ritual curse lists written on broken pottery bowls and clay figurines of bound prisoners, naming the enemies of the Egyptian state, mainly from the Middle Kingdom.
Expedition of Henu to Punt
The Expedition of Henu to Punt was a Red Sea trading voyage sent by Mentuhotep III around 2000 BC and commanded by his steward Henenu, recorded in a Wadi Hammamat inscription.
Expedition of Herkhuf to Irtjet
The expedition of Herkhuf to Irtjet records the Aswan official Herkhuf's journeys through Lower Nubian Irtjet under Merenre I and Pepi II, known from his tomb inscriptions.
Expedition of Weni to the quarries
The Expedition of Weni to the quarries was a series of stone-quarrying missions led by the official Weni under Egyptian kings Pepi I and Merenre.
Expedition to Punt of Hatshepsut
The expedition to Punt of Hatshepsut was a naval trading voyage sent by pharaoh Hatshepsut to the land of Punt by Year 9 of her reign, chiefly to bring back live myrrh trees.
Expeditions of the Aswan governors to Nubia
Trading and military ventures south of Elephantine led by governors Harkhuf, Sabni, and Pepinakht-Heqaib in Dynasty 6, seeking luxury goods for the pharaoh and the road to Yam.
Expulsion of the Alexandrian scholars by Ptolemy VIII
The expulsion of the Alexandrian scholars, also known as the exile of the Alexandrian scholars, was Ptolemy VIII's removal of Alexandria's Museum and Library intellectuals in 145 BC.
Expulsion of the Hyksos
The Expulsion of the Hyksos, also called the Wars of Ahmose I against the Hyksos, was Ahmose I's defeat of the Hyksos around 1550 BCE, reunifying Egypt.
Eye of Horus
Eye of Horus (wedjat, udjat), the healed eye of the falcon god Horus in Egyptian myth: injured by Seth, restored, tied to the moon, offerings, and one of Egypt's most common protective amulets.
Eye of Ra
The Eye of Ra (irt Ra), in ancient Egyptian religion, is the sun god Ra's eye personified as a fierce goddess, Hathor, Sekhmet, Tefnut, or Wadjet, whose destructive and protective power, uraeus emblem, and Distant Goddess myths distinguish it from the lunar Eye of Horus.
Faiyum reclamation
The Faiyum reclamation, also called Fayum reclamation, was a 12th Dynasty Egyptian project that drained and irrigated land around Lake Moeris in the Fayum depression during the first half of the 19th century BC.
Fall of Avaris
The Fall of Avaris, also known as the Siege of Avaris, was the capture of the Hyksos capital in the Nile Delta by pharaoh Ahmose I around 1530 BCE.
Fall of Thinis
The Fall of Thinis was the capture of Thinis, chief town of the eighth Upper Egyptian nome, by the Theban Eleventh Dynasty under Wahankh Intef II, about 2100 BC.
Famine Stela
The Famine Stela, or Sehel famine inscription, is a rock inscription on Sehel Island near Aswan in which King Djoser ends a seven-year famine through Khnum's favor.
Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys
The Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian liturgical text in which the goddesses call on Osiris to return, sung at his Abydos temple.
Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, or Great Hyksos Dynasty, was a line of six West Semitic rulers who governed from Avaris in the Nile Delta from about 1650 to 1550 BC.
Fifth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, also called the 5th Dynasty, was an Old Kingdom royal line of about 2494–2345 BCE, known for sun temples and the Pyramid Texts of Unas.