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Ahmose (wife of Thutmose I)
Ahmose was a Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I, an 18th Dynasty king of Egypt's New Kingdom, best known as the mother of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Ahmose called Si-Tayit
Ahmose called Si-Tayit is an early 18th Dynasty figure named in connection with the first viceroy (king's son) of Kush, though the Met names Ruiu instead.
Ahmose Humay
Ahmose Humay was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who managed the granaries of the God's Wife of Amun under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Ahmose I
Ahmose I (Nebpehtyre), c. 1550–1525 BCE, first pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who expelled the Hyksos and founded the New Kingdom; his Abydos pyramid complex, debated tomb, and queen Ahmose-Nefertari distinguish him.
Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma
Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma was a series of Egyptian military operations into Nubia in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, around 1550 to 1525 BC, targeting the Kingdom of Kush.
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet, also written Ahmose-Pennekhbet, was an Egyptian official and soldier of the early 18th Dynasty who served Thutmose I, Thutmose II, and Hatshepsut and was buried at El-Kab.
Ahmose son of Ebana
Ahmose son of Ebana was an Egyptian naval officer from Elkab who served under Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.
Ahmose Turo
Ahmose Turo, also known as Turi, was an official of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, the crown's top administrator of Nubia, under Amenhotep I and Thutmose I.
Ahmose-Henuttamehu
Ahmose-Henuttamehu was a royal princess of the late 17th Dynasty at Thebes, in the family of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummified relatives were reburied in the Deir el-Bahari royal cache.
Ahmose-Inhapy
Ahmose-Inhapy, also written Ahmose-Inhapi, was a Theban queen of Egypt's late 17th Dynasty, probably a wife of Seqenenre Tao II and a daughter of Senakhtenre Tao I.
Ahmose-Meritamon
Ahmose-Meritamon, also Ahmose-Meritamun, was an Egyptian queen of Dynasty 18, daughter of Ahmose I and Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, buried in tomb TT358 at Deir el-Bahari.
Ahmose-Nefertari
Ahmose-Nefertari, also known as Ahmose-Nofretari, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, wife of Ahmose I and mother of Amenhotep I, later deified at Thebes.
Ahmose-Sapair
Ahmose-Sapair, also written Ahmose-Sipair, was a prince of the Theban royal family at the end of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, around 1560 BCE, remembered through a funerary cult lasting five centuries.
Ahmose-Sitamun
Ahmose-Sitamun was a princess of Egypt's early Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of pharaoh Ahmose I, known chiefly from a large statue erected for her at Karnak.
Ahmose-Sitkamose
Ahmose-Sitkamose, also written Ahmose Satkamose, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, most likely a daughter of Kamose and wife of Ahmose I.
Ahmosid family
Ahmose-Nebetta was a royal woman of the Ahmosid family, the Theban house that expelled the Hyksos and founded the 18th Dynasty; she is not among the mummies securely identified in cache TT320.
Akhamenru
Akhamenru was a high official of Thebes in the late 25th Dynasty of Egypt, serving as Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II.
Akhenaten
Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), 18th Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt (ca. 1353–1336 or 1349–1332 BC), promoted exclusive worship of the sun-disc Aten, founded the capital Akhetaten (Amarna), and sponsored Amarna art; his reforms were reversed under Tutankhamun.
Akhetaa
Akhetaa (Akhetâa) was a high official of Egypt's Third Dynasty around 2700 BC, known from a limestone door-jamb relief found at Saqqara and held in the Louvre.
Akhethetep (son of Ptahhotep)
Akhethetep was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official and vizier, father of the vizier Ptahhotep II, buried with his son in the double mastaba D64 at Saqqara.
Akhimenru
Akhimenru, also written Akhamenru, was a Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes during the Kushite 25th Dynasty, serving Amenirdis I and Shepenwepet II.
Akhmim Wooden Tablet
The Akhmim Wooden Tablet is an Egyptian mathematical text from around 2000 BC that divides the grain measure hekat by 3, 7, 10, 11, and 13.
Alexander Helios
Alexander Helios, son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, was born in 40 BC and proclaimed king of Armenia at the Donations of Alexandria in 34 BC.
Alexander's conquest of Egypt
Alexander's conquest of Egypt was the bloodless takeover of the Persian satrapy in late 332 BC by Alexander the Great, welcomed as a liberator after Issus.
Alexandria School of Medicine
The Alexandria School of Medicine was a Greek medical school in Ptolemaic Alexandria from the third century BC, where Herophilus and Erasistratus performed antiquity's only systematic human dissections.
Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC
The Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC was an uprising that expelled King Ptolemy X from Egypt, restored his brother Ptolemy IX, and ended with Ptolemy X's death.
Alexandrian War
The Alexandrian War, also called the Alexandrine Civil War, was the 48–47 BC siege in which Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII defeated Ptolemy XIII in Alexandria.
Amada stela of Amenhotep II
The Amada stela of Amenhotep II is a large sandstone stela from Year 3 of Amenhotep II, still standing in the temple of Amada in Lower Nubia.
Amanmašša
Amanmašša, also Amanmasha or Amanmassa, is the name of an Egyptian official, probably two separate men, in the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna art
Amarna art, also known as the Amarna style, is the unconventional Egyptian art of Akhenaten's reign, about 1353–1336 BCE, with elongated bodies and intimate royal family scenes.