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Khufukhaf II
Khufukhaf II, also written Khafkhufu II, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian official buried in mastaba G 7150 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza, near Khufukhaf I.
Khui (pharaoh)
Khui was a pharaoh of Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2160 BC, known almost solely from one inscribed block and a large mudbrick monument at Dara, Middle Egypt.
Khuit I
Khuit I was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, whose precise standing among the late Fifth Dynasty royal women is still debated by scholars.
Khuit II
Khuit II was a queen consort of Teti, first king of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, known from her small pyramid at Saqqara, which Zahi Hawass's excavations showed she was Teti's primary wife.
Khunes
Khunes was a high official and governor of Elephantine, Egypt's southern frontier, in the late Old Kingdom, buried in the largest tomb complex at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.
Khyan
Khyan, also rendered Khayan or Khian, was one of the most important Hyksos kings of Egypt's 15th Dynasty, with his reign dated roughly 1681 to 1581 BC.
King Neferkare and General Sasenet
King Neferkare and General Sasenet, also known as Neferkare and Sasenet, is a fragmentary ancient Egyptian tale about King Neferkare (Pepi II) secretly visiting his general Sasenet at night.
Kiya
Kiya was a secondary wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during Egypt's Amarna Period, known for her unique title "Greatly Beloved Wife" and monuments later erased from record.
Kombaphis
Kombaphis, also transmitted as Combaphis or Kombapheus, is a fictitious traitor priest in Ctesias' lost Persica, said to have betrayed Egypt to Cambyses II in 525 BC.
Kushite raid on El Kab
The Kushite raid on El Kab was an invasion of Upper Egypt by the kingdom of Kush during the Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the tomb inscription of governor Sobeknakht.
Kushite revolt against Thutmose II
The Kushite revolt against Thutmose II was an uprising in Nubia in Year 1 of his reign, crushed by an army the king did not accompany.
Lachish ewer
The Lachish ewer is a Late Bronze Age pottery jug found at Lachish, Israel, in 1934, bearing an early Canaanite alphabetic inscription dated to the late thirteenth century BC.
Ladice
Ladice (Greek Λαδίκη) was a princess of Cyrene who married the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II in the third quarter of the 6th century BC as part of an alliance between Egypt and Cyrene.
Lady of the Lions
The Lady of the Lions was a Canaanite woman who ruled a city in the Shephelah and wrote two letters to the Egyptian pharaoh around 1350 BCE.
Lady Rai
Lady Rai was an Egyptian nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari in the early 18th Dynasty, whose mummy, found in 1881 at Deir el-Bahari, shows exceptional embalming.
Lagus (father of Ptolemy I)
Lagus was a 4th-century-BC Macedonian, husband of Arsinoe and reputed father of Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, though ancient sources sometimes named Philip II as Ptolemy's real father.
Lahun Mathematical Papyri
The Lahun Mathematical Papyri, also called the Kahun Mathematical Papyri, are Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical fragments found at Lahun in the Fayum and held in the Petrie Museum in London.
Lahun papyri
The Lahun papyri, also called the Kahun Papyri, are the largest surviving group of Middle Kingdom papyri from Egypt, excavated at Lahun by Flinders Petrie from 1889.
Late Period of ancient Egypt
Late Period of ancient Egypt (Dynasties 26–31, c. 664–332 BC), also called Saite era: last era of native Egyptian rule before Persia and Alexander, marked by Saite artistic revival, Persian conquests, Dynasty 30 temple building, and Osiris votive bronzes.
Late Ramesside Letters
The Late Ramesside Letters are a corpus of over seventy Late Egyptian letters from Thebes, written in the reign of Ramesses XI, around 1099 to 1069 BC.
Lenaeus (regent of Egypt)
Lenaeus (Greek Lenaios) was a former Syrian slave who, with the eunuch Eulaeus, governed Ptolemaic Egypt as regent for the boy king Ptolemy VI from 176 BC.
Letter of Pepi II to Harkhuf
The Letter of Pepi II to Harkhuf is a royal letter from young king Pepi II to the official Harkhuf, the oldest surviving royal letter in Egyptian history.
Letters to the Dead
Letters to the Dead are ancient Egyptian petitions written to recently deceased relatives, asking their help with illness, inheritance disputes, or the birth of an heir.
Levantine campaigns of Senusret III
The Levantine campaigns of Senusret III were Middle Kingdom Egyptian expeditions into Canaan and Syria-Palestine, recorded on the stele of the officer Sebek-khu, which describes the fall of Sekmem and Retjenu.
Library of the temple of Edfu
The library of the temple of Edfu is a wall-inscribed catalog of the Ptolemaic temple's papyrus books, the only surviving House of Books chamber in ancient Egypt.
Libu
The Libu, also written Rebu, were an ancient Libyan tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian records from the New Kingdom onward; their name gave the word Libya.
Libyan Palette
The Libyan Palette, also called the Tehenu or Cities Palette, is a Late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial schist palette fragment, dated to about 3200-3000 BC, carved with animals, olive trees, and seven walled towns.
Libyan wars of Ramesses III
The Libyan wars of Ramesses III were two campaigns, in about 1180 and 1174 BC, repelling Libyan tribes, chiefly the Libu and Meshwesh, pressing into the western Nile Delta.
Lion hunts of Amenhotep III
The lion hunts of Amenhotep III are recorded on commemorative Egyptian scarabs stating that the pharaoh killed 102 lions with his own arrows in his first ten years.
List of pharaohs
List of pharaohs: reconstructed sequence of ancient Egypt's kings from Menes/Aha through Manetho's 30 dynasties to Cleopatra, based on the Palermo Stone, Abydos Kinglist, Turin Canon, and radiocarbon-anchored chronology.