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Medinet Habu king list
The Medinet Habu king list is a carved relief in Ramesses III's mortuary temple at Thebes, showing sixteen cartouches naming nine kings, modeled on the Ramesseum king list.
Medinet Habu reliefs of Ramesses III
The Medinet Habu reliefs of Ramesses III are carved war scenes at his mortuary temple in Thebes, Egypt, recording the Sea Peoples and Libyan wars.
Medjed
Medjed (Mḏd, "The Smiter") is a minor ancient Egyptian deity of Book of the Dead Spell 17, depicted only in 21st Dynasty sources as an invisible conical figure, later a mascot-like character in Japanese anime, games, and Persona 5.
Mehaa
Mehaa was a queen of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty and a wife of King Pepi I, discovered through excavations of the queens' pyramids at South Saqqara.
Mehu (vizier)
Mehu was a chief justice and vizier of Egypt in the early 6th Dynasty, serving under Teti and probably Pepi I, known from his richly decorated mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Mehytenweskhet
Mehytenweskhet, also known as Mehet-en-usekhet, was a queen of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, wife of Pharaoh Psamtik I and mother of his successor Necho II and of Nitocris I, God's Wife of Amun.
Meidum pyramid collapse
The Meidum pyramid collapse was the loss of the outer casing and fill of the pyramid at Meidum, Egypt, begun under Huni and completed by Snefru around 2600 BC.
Meketaten
Meketaten was an Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty, the second daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, who died young during the Amarna period and was buried at Amarna.
Meketre
Meketre (Meketra) was a royal sealer, chancellor, and chief steward of ancient Egypt who served Mentuhotep II and Amenemhat I, best known for the twenty-four wooden tomb models found in his Theban tomb.
Mekhu
Mekhu was a late Old Kingdom notable of Elephantine, Egypt, known as the father of the official Sabni and for his mortuary cult under Pepi II.
Menches
Menches, alias Asklepiades, was a village scribe of Kerkeosiris in the Fayum, Ptolemaic Egypt, active from 119 BC into the 110s BC and known through his papyrus archive.
Mendes Stele
The Mendes Stele, or Great Mendes Stela, is a hieroglyphic stela of Pharaoh Ptolemy II found at Mendes in the Nile Delta and kept in Cairo.
Menes
Menes, from Egyptian Meni, is the legendary first king of Egypt credited with unifying Upper and Lower Egypt and founding the First Dynasty; he is identified by most scholars with Narmer and by others with Hor-Aha.
Menhet, Menwi and Merti
Menhet, Menwi and Merti were three foreign-born wives of pharaoh Thutmose III, buried together in a richly furnished rock-cut tomb at Thebes, found and robbed in 1916.
Menkare
Menkare was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Eighth Dynasty, a line of kings based at Memphis at the close of the Old Kingdom, known only from later king lists.
Menkauhor Kaiu
Menkauhor Kaiu, also known as Menkauhor, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, ruling for about 8 years in the mid-24th century BC.
Menkaure
Menkaure, known to the Greeks as Mycerinus, was a Dynasty 4 pharaoh of Egypt who built the third and smallest pyramid at Giza around 2532–2503 BC.
Menkheperraseneb I
Menkheperraseneb I was High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the reign of Thutmose III in Egypt's 18th Dynasty, around 1479 to 1425 BC, buried in tomb TT86.
Menkheperre (High Priest of Amun)
Menkheperre was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in the 21st Dynasty of ancient Egypt, a younger son of Pinudjem I, in office almost five decades, c. 1045–992 BC.
Menkheperre (prince)
Menkheperre was a prince of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and a son of the pharaoh Thutmose III, known chiefly from a British Museum statuette showing him leading princesses.
Menkheperreseneb (High Priest of Amun)
Menkheperreseneb, also written Menkheperre-seneb, is the name of one or two High Priests of Amun at Thebes in the early 18th Dynasty, under Thutmose III.
Menna (18th Dynasty official)
Menna was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian official who administered royal and temple fields as Scribe of the Fields, known from his painted Theban tomb TT69 at Luxor.
Mentuherkhepeshef A
Mentuherkhepeshef A was a prince of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, the fifth son of Ramesses II, who held chariotry titles, never became king, and is known from a block statue in Boston.
Mentuhotep (god's father)
Mentuhotep was an ancient Egyptian official who held the title god's father under King Sobekhotep III of the 13th Dynasty, and is known from six monuments.
Mentuhotep (treasurer of Senusret I)
Mentuhotep, also transcribed Montuhotep, was a royal treasurer of Egypt's 12th Dynasty serving King Senusret I around 1950 BC, best known for his Abydos stela and many Karnak statues.
Mentuhotep (vizier)
Mentuhotep was a high official of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty under King Senusret I, called vizier in some studies and treasurer in others, with a large tomb at Lisht.
Mentuhotep I
Mentuhotep I, also Montuhotep Tepy-aa, was a Theban nomarch of the Eleventh Dynasty, traditionally counted as its first ruler, though some scholars doubt he was ever king.
Mentuhotep II
Mentuhotep II, also known as Nebhepetre Mentuhotep, was an Eleventh Dynasty king at Thebes who reunified Egypt after the First Intermediate Period, founding the Middle Kingdom around 2055 BC.
Mentuhotep III
Mentuhotep III, also known as Sankhkare Mentuhotep, was an Eleventh Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled from Thebes around 2010-1998 BC and sent an expedition to Punt.
Mentuhotep IV
Mentuhotep IV, also known as Nebtawyre Mentuhotep, was the seventh and last king of the Theban Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, ending around 1991 BC.