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Min Palette
The Min Palette, also called the El-Amrah palette, is a late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette carved with the god Min's emblem, held in the British Museum.
Mindjedef
Mindjedef was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of Prince Kawab and a grandson of King Khufu, known from his red granite sarcophagus and mastaba G 7760 at Giza.
Minemhat
Minemhat was an ancient Egyptian official who served as mayor of Koptos in Upper Egypt during the Seventeenth Dynasty, under the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef.
Mining expedition of Ramesses IV to the Wadi Hammamat
The mining expeditions of Ramesses IV to the Wadi Hammamat (c. 1156–1150 BC) quarried prized bekhen-stone for his mortuary monuments, the largest workforce exceeding 8,000 men.
Minkhaf
Minkhaf, also known as Minkhaf I, was a prince and vizier of Dynasty 4 Egypt, a son of pharaoh Khufu, buried in a double mastaba at Giza.
Minmontu
Minmontu, also written Minmonth and called Senires, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in the early 18th Dynasty, serving under Ahmose I and Amenhotep I.
Minmose (overseer of granaries)
Minmose was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who held the title Overseer of the Granary under Queen Hatshepsut, attested in the obelisk-transport inscription at Deir el-Bahari.
Minmose (overseer of works)
Minmose was an official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, titled overseer of the festivals of Osiris and steward of the God's Wife.
Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
The Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a are more than 20,000 wall-painting fragments in Minoan style, found at Avaris in Egypt's Nile Delta and dating to about 1470 BC.
Mirgissa Execration Texts
The Mirgissa execration texts are Middle Kingdom Egyptian ritual inscriptions found at Mirgissa in Lower Nubia in 1962, naming foreign enemies to be ritually subdued.
Montuemhat
Montuemhat, also written Mentuemhat, was a Theban official and Governor of Upper Egypt under Taharqo and Psamtik I, buried in the largest private tomb in Western Thebes.
Montuherkhopshef (son of Ramesses III)
Montuherkhopshef, also written Mentuherkhepeshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty and a son of Pharaoh Ramesses III, listed sixth among the royal sons at Medinet Habu.
Montuwoser
Mentuwoser, also rendered Montu-user, was a royal steward and Overseer of the Double Granary under King Senusret I of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, known from a finely carved stela now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also called the Golenischev Mathematical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical text from about 1850 BC containing 25 problems with worked solutions.
Mouseion of Alexandria
The Mouseion of Alexandria, also called the Museum of Alexandria, was a state-funded community of salaried scholars in Egypt, set up under the first two Ptolemies in the 3rd century BC.
Mummies 317a and 317b
Mummies 317a and 317b are two mummified fetuses found in 1922 in Tutankhamun's tomb KV62, likely his stillborn daughters, deliberately embalmed and buried with him.
Mut
Mut (Mwt), ancient Egyptian mother goddess, wife of Amun and mother of Khonsu in the Theban triad, Queen of the Gods from the New Kingdom, vulture-headdress iconography, cult center at the Mut Precinct, South Karnak.
Mutbenret
Mutbenret was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian royal in-law, traditionally identified as the sister of Queen Nefertiti, attested in the Amarna tombs of the 1350s BC.
Mutemwiya
Mutemwiya, also written Mutemweya or Mutemwia, was a wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV and mother of his successor Amenhotep III, queens of Egypt's 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom.
Muthis
Muthis is a putative king of Egypt's Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Mendes, assigned a one-year reign in the early fourth century BC and known only from Eusebius' version of Manetho's Epitome.
Mutnedjmet (Great Royal Wife of Horemheb)
Mutnedjmet, also written Mutnodjmet, was the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the last king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty. She was buried with an infant in his tomb at Saqqara.
Mutnofret
Mutnofret, also rendered Mutnefert, was a queen of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a secondary wife of Thutmose I and mother of his successor Thutmose II, around 1500 BC.
Myrmidon of Athens
Myrmidon of Athens was an Athenian general serving Ptolemy I of Egypt, known from Diodorus for leading 10,000 men to Cyprus in 315 BC and aiding Asander in Caria against Antigonus.
Nakht (scribe of Amun)
Nakht was an ancient Egyptian scribe and astronomer of Amun who served at Karnak under Thutmose IV, known almost solely from his painted tomb TT52 at Thebes.
Nakhtefmut (Second Prophet of Amun)
Nakhtefmut was a hereditary priest of Amun-Re at Thebes, buried about 892 BC; his gilded mummy case, found at the Ramesseum in 1896, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Nakhtmin (general under Tutankhamun)
Nakhtmin, also written Min-nakht, was a general and king's scribe of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Tutankhamun and Ay, later promoted to King's Son and proposed as Ay's heir.
Nakhtneith
Nakhtneith, also spelled Naktneith, was a royal woman of Egypt's 1st Dynasty around 3000 BC, known only from a name-stela found in King Djer's funerary complex at Umm el-Qaab, Abydos.
Nakhtpaaten
Nakhtpaaten, also called Nakht, meaning "Strong is the Aten", was a vizier of Egypt under Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty, known from his large mansion and unfinished tomb at Amarna.
Nakhtubasterau
Nakhtubasterau was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a wife of Pharaoh Amasis II of the 26th Dynasty, known from an inscribed ushabti found at Giza.
Nakhy
Nakhy, transliterated Nahy, was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis in ancient Egypt, known only from a rose-granite sarcophagus in the State Hermitage Museum, first published in 2019.