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Naos of the Decades
The Naos of the Decades is a granodiorite Egyptian shrine from the reign of Nectanebo I, inscribed with an astronomical calendar of 36 ten-day decan frames.
Naqada culture
The Naqada culture, also known as the Naqada period, was a Predynastic Upper Egyptian culture of the fourth millennium BC, named after the site of Naqada.
Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt
The Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt, also called the Lower Egyptian–Naqada Transition, was the spread of Upper Egyptian Naqada culture into the Nile Delta from about 3350 BC, ending in unification around 3100 BC.
Naqada I
Naqada I, also called the Amratian, is the first phase of the Naqada culture of Predynastic Upper Egypt, running c. 4000-3500 BC with farming villages between Abydos and Hierakonpolis.
Naqada III
Naqada III, also called the Semainian culture, is the final phase of Egypt's Predynastic Naqada culture, about 3200-3000 BC, marked by Dynasty 0 kings and the earliest hieroglyphs.
Narmer
Narmer, also identified by many Egyptologists with Menes, was the first king of Egypt's First Dynasty around 3100-3000 BC, known from the Narmer Palette found at Hierakonpolis, which shows him in both the White and Red Crowns as unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Narmer Macehead
The Narmer Macehead is a limestone ceremonial macehead attributed to King Narmer of Egypt's First Dynasty, about 3050 BC, found at Hierakonpolis and held at Oxford.
Narmer Palette
Narmer Palette: siltstone ceremonial cosmetic palette, 64 x 42 cm, from the Horus temple at Hierakonpolis, found 1897-1898 by Quibell and Green; shows King Narmer in both White and Red crowns, earliest hieroglyphs, now Cairo JdE 32169.
Naunakhte
Naunakhte, also spelled Naunakht, was a woman of the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina in Thebes who declared her will before the village court around 1145 BC.
Nauny
Nauny, also written Nany or Naun, was a royal woman of Egypt's early 21st Dynasty, probably a daughter of Painedjem I, buried around 1050 BCE at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes.
Nauri Decree
The Nauri Decree, also called the Nauri Stela, is a 128-line rock inscription of Year 4 of Seti I, about 1290 BCE, protecting his Abydos temple foundation.
Nebamun (scribe and grain accountant)
Nebamun was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who served as scribe and grain accountant in the Temple of Amun at Thebes, dying around 1350 BC.
Nebankh
Nebankh was a high official of Egypt's 13th Dynasty around 1750 BC, holding the titles royal seal-keeper and high steward, known from a stela erected at Abydos.
Nebdjefare
Nebdjefare was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King List, which records a one-year reign.
Nebemakhet
Nebemakhet was a prince and vizier of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khafre and Queen Meresankh III, buried in the Giza necropolis in rock-cut tomb G 8172.
Nebet (vizier)
Nebet was a Sixth Dynasty noblewoman of ancient Egypt, usually described as the first known female vizier, wife of the official Khui and mother of two queens of Pepi I.
Nebet (wife of Unas)
Nebet was a queen consort of the Egyptian pharaoh Unas, last king of the Fifth Dynasty, buried in a shared mastaba beside his pyramid at North Saqqara.
Nebetah
Nebetah was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye and sister of Akhenaten, known from a single statue at Medinet Habu.
Nebetka
Nebetka, also written Nebitka, was a high official of Egypt's First Dynasty who served kings Den and Anedjib and was buried in mastaba S3038 at North Saqqara.
Nebettawy
Nebettawy was a princess and Great Royal Wife of Ramesses II in 13th-century BC Egypt, buried in tomb QV 60 in the Valley of the Queens.
Nebfaure
Nebfaure, also known as Khakherewre Nebfaure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1704 BC and known only from the Turin King List.
Nebiryaw I
Sewadjenre Nebiryaw I, also written Nebiriau I or Nebiryraw I, was a pharaoh of the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about 26 years.
Nebiryaw II
Nebiryaw II, also written Nebiriau II or Nebiryerawet II, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 16th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, placed around 1601 BC and known only from the Turin King List.
Nebit
Nebit was a vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty during the Middle Kingdom, known chiefly from his mastaba at Dahshur, north of King Senwosret III's pyramid complex.
Nebka
Nebka is the throne name of a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty, recorded first in the Abydos king list and Turin Canon, though scholars debate whether he was Sanakht.
Nebkaure Khety
Nebkaure Khety was a pharaoh of the Herakleopolitan Ninth or Tenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, c. 2160–2130 BC, known almost entirely from one inscribed weight.
Nebmaatre (pharaoh)
Nebmaatre is a poorly attested pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, tentatively assigned to the Seventeenth Dynasty and known only from a lion figure in the Petrie Museum.
Nebmaatre (prince)
Nebmaatre was an ancient Egyptian prince and High Priest of Re at Heliopolis in the 20th Dynasty, likely a son of Ramesses IX, known from a door lintel naming them together.
Nebnefer (foreman of Deir el-Medina)
Nebnefer, also written Nebnufer, was a foreman of the right side of the royal tomb crew at Deir el-Medina, son and successor of the foreman Neferhotep, in Dynasty 19.
Nebpu (High Priest of Ptah)
Nebpu was an ancient Egyptian priest of Ptah at Memphis during the Twelfth Dynasty, known from a sandstone family group statue now in the Louvre.