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Merneith
Merneith (Meritneith, Meryt-Neith) was a First Dynasty Egyptian royal woman around 3000 BC, probably wife of Djet, mother of Den, and possibly Egypt's earliest female ruler.
Merneptah
Merneptah (Merenptah, Baenre), thirteenth son of Ramesses II, reigned c. 1213-1203 BC as a 19th Dynasty pharaoh. Known for the Year 5 Libyan war and the Israel Stela, the earliest mention of Israel.
Merneptah grain shipment to Hatti
The Merneptah grain shipment to Hatti was an Egyptian dispatch of grain by sea to the famine-stricken Hittite Empire, recorded in the Great Karnak Inscription around 1208 BC.
Merneptah Stele
The Merneptah Stele, also called the Israel Stele, is a black granite Egyptian victory monument of about 1208 BC whose closing lines give the earliest extra-biblical mention of Israel, marked as a people rather than a place.
Merneptah's Libyan War
Merneptah's Libyan War, also known as the Battle of Perire, was a battle around 1208 BC in which Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah defeated invading Libyans in the western Delta.
Mershepsesre Ini II
Mershepsesre Ini II, also read Ini Mershepesre, was a pharaoh of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from a statue moved from Karnak to Italy.
Meru (nomarch of the Cynopolite nome)
Meru, also called Bebi, was governor of the Hare nome, the 15th nome of Upper Egypt, early in the Sixth Dynasty under the kings Teti and Pepy I.
Meru (overseer of sealers)
Meru was an ancient Egyptian official, overseer of sealers under King Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from graffiti, a stela, and tomb TT 240.
Mery (High Priest of Amun)
Mery was an Egyptian official who served as High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II, in the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom.
Mery (High Priest of Osiris)
Mery was High Priest of Osiris at Abydos in Dynasty 19 under Ramesses II, and his son Wenennefer succeeded him in the same hereditary office.
Meryamun (son of Ramesses II)
Meryamun, also known as Meriamun, was a prince of ancient Egypt, the seventh son of Pharaoh Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, who reigned from 1279 to 1213 BC.
Meryatum (son of Ramesses II)
Meryatum was a prince of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari, attested by a Berlin statue inscription and probably buried in tomb KV5.
Meryey
Meryey, also rendered Merey, was a Libyan chief, son of Dedy, who led an invasion of Egypt around 1208 BC and was defeated by pharaoh Merneptah, fleeing the battle.
Meryhathor
Meryhathor is a poorly attested pharaoh whom some Egyptologists place at the head of Egypt's Tenth Dynasty around 2130 BC, known only from a graffito at Hatnub.
Meryibre Khety
Meryibre Khety, also known as Achthoes or Kheti I, was a pharaoh of the Ninth Dynasty of Egypt who ruled from Heracleopolis around 2160 BC, possibly founding the dynasty.
Meryneith
Meryneith, also called Meryre, was an Egyptian official who served the Aten temple at Memphis under Akhenaten, ending as high priest under Tutankhamun; his Saqqara tomb was rediscovered in 2001.
Meryre (treasurer)
Meryre, also written Meri-re or Meryra, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian official who served as overseer of the treasury under Amenhotep III and tutored the prince Si-atum, known from reliefs in Vienna.
Meryre I
Meryre I, also spelled Meryra, was High Priest of the Aten at Akhetaten during Akhenaten's reign, holding the rank Fanbearer on the Right Hand of the King.
Meryre II
Meryre II, also written Meryra II, was a royal scribe and steward of Queen Nefertiti at Akhenaten's court, and owner of rock-cut tomb TA 2 at Amarna.
Merysekhmet
Merysekhmet is the name of one or more workmen at Deir el-Medina, the Theban village of craftsmen who built the royal tombs in the 19th Dynasty under Ramesses II.
Meryteti
Meryteti, also printed Meriteti, was an ancient Egyptian official of the Sixth Dynasty who served as vizier under Pepy I and was buried in his father Mereruka's mastaba at North Saqqara.
Merytre-Hatshepsut
Merytre-Hatshepsut, also written Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra, was a queen of Egypt's Dynasty 18, the second Great Royal Wife of Thutmose III and mother of his successor Amenhotep II, who held the title God's Wife of Amun.
Mesehti
Mesehti was a nomarch, the provincial governor of Asyut in Upper Egypt during the late Eleventh Dynasty, best known for the wooden model soldiers found in his tomb.
Mesen-ka
Mesen-ka was an ancient Egyptian royal prince of the late Second or early Third Dynasty, known from stone-vessel inscriptions found in Djoser's Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara.
Meshwesh
The Meshwesh, also called Mashawasha or Maxyes, were an ancient Libyan tribe recorded in Egypt from the New Kingdom, later settling in the Delta as soldiers and colonists.
Messuy
Messuy, also written Messuwy, was Viceroy of Kush, a high Egyptian official in Nubia, under Pharaoh Merneptah around 1212–1202 BC, and is best known for a disputed proposal that he later ruled as the pharaoh Amenmesse.
Metjen
Metjen, also rendered Methen, was a high official and territorial administrator of early Old Kingdom Egypt, whose mastaba at Saqqara holds one of the oldest known Egyptian autobiographies.
Metternich Stela
The Metternich Stela, named for Prince Metternich, is an Egyptian healing stela of Dynasty 30, made under Nectanebo II and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE, Dynasty 11-13): reunification by Mentuhotep II after the First Intermediate Period, the 12th Dynasty classical age under Amenemhat I and Senusret III, ending with the Hyksos rise in the Second Intermediate Period.
Min (god)
Min (Egyptian Mnw) is an ancient Egyptian fertility and harvest god, protector of the Eastern Desert, worshipped from predynastic times, with cult centers at Koptos and Akhmim and ithyphallic two-plumed iconography.