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Netjernakht
Netjernakht, also written Netjer-nakht, was a Middle Kingdom official of Egypt's 16th Upper Egyptian nome who held the title overseer of the Eastern Desert and was buried in tomb BH 23 at Beni Hassan.
New Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1550–1069 BC), the Egyptian Empire period of Dynasties 18–20, founded by Ahmose I after expelling the Hyksos; rulers included Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II.
Ni-Neith
Ni-Neith is the name Egyptologists give to a putative ruler of Dynasty 0, predating Egypt's First Dynasty, known only from a single inscription at Helwan.
Niankhba
Niankhba was a chief justice and vizier of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Unas around 2350 BC and was buried in a mastaba at Saqqara.
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were ancient Egyptian royal manicurists of the Fifth Dynasty, buried together at Saqqara in a shared tomb with reliefs of them embracing.
Nicanor (Ptolemaic general)
Nicanor was a friend and general of Ptolemy I of Egypt, sent in 320 BC to conquer Syria and Phoenicia, where he quickly took the governor Laomedon prisoner.
Nikaiankh I
Nikaiankh I, also written Nika-ankh, was a local official of Tehne in Upper Egypt during the early Fifth Dynasty, around 2450 BC, serving as Keeper of the King's Property.
Nikaiankh II
Nikaiankh II, also written Nika-ankh II, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian provincial official whose rock-cut tomb no. 15 at Tehna, one of the Fraser tombs, is noted for its large engaged statues.
Nikara
Nikara, also rendered Nikare, was the ninth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighth Dynasty during the First Intermediate Period, around the 22nd century BC, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare (Dynasty 8)
Nikare, also Nikare I, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Memphite Seventh/Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare II
Nikare II is a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, assigned by some reconstructions to the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty, though his membership is disputed.
Nile Level Texts
The Nile Level Texts, also called the Nile Level Records, are inscriptions on the Karnak quay recording annual Nile flood heights across most of the Third Intermediate Period.
Nimaathap
Nimaathap, also rendered Nimaethap, was an Egyptian royal woman of the late Second and early Third Dynasties, probably the wife of King Khasekhemwy and mother of King Djoser.
Nimaathap II
Nimaathap II, also known as Nimaethap II, is the conventional designation for a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, known only from a roster of royal women.
Nimlot (son of Shoshenq I)
Nimlot, also known as Nimlot B or Nemareth, was a prince of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, third son of King Shoshenq I and commander of the army at Herakleopolis around 940 BC.
Nimlot A
Nimlot A was a Libyan Great Chief of the Ma in late Twenty-first Dynasty Egypt and the father of Shoshenq I, founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
Nimlot C
Nimlot C, son of pharaoh Osorkon II and queen Djedmoutesankh, served as High Priest of Amun at Thebes and ruler of Herakleopolis in the early 22nd Dynasty.
Nimlot of Hermopolis
Nimlot of Hermopolis, also rendered Namlot, was a local king of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt in the late eighth century BC, who resisted and then submitted to Piye.
Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1295–1186 BC), second New Kingdom dynasty, also called the Ramesside dynasty. Founded by Ramesses I under Horemheb; Sety I reconquered the Levant, Ramesses II fought Kadesh and signed the first known peace treaty (1258 BCE), Merenptah repelled the Sea Peoples before decline.
Ninth Dynasty of Egypt
The Ninth Dynasty of Egypt, or 9th Dynasty, was a line of kings who ruled Lower Egypt from Herakleopolis during the First Intermediate Period, until defeated by Mentuhotep II.
Nitocris
Nitocris, or Nitiqret, is a queen whom classical tradition places at the end of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, around 2184–2181 BCE, remembered for drowning her brother's killers at a banquet.
Nitocris I (God's Wife of Amun)
Nitocris I, also known as Neitiqert, was a God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, daughter of Psammetichus I, who held the office for almost 70 years from 656 BC.
Nitocris II (Divine Adoratrice of Amun)
Nitocris II was a Saite princess, daughter of Amasis II, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes before the Persian conquest of 525 BC.
Nodjmet
Nodjmet, also written Nedjmet, was a high-ranking Theban noblewoman of the late Twentieth Dynasty, traditionally the wife of Herihor, the High Priest of Amun who took royal titles.
Nofret (wife of Rahotep)
Nofret, also Neferet, was an Egyptian noblewoman of Dynasty 4, wife of prince Rahotep, known from their famous painted limestone statues found at Meidum in 1871.
Nofret II
Nofret II was a royal woman of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Senusret II, known from statues at Tanis; whether she was the king's wife or daughter is disputed.
Nomarch
A nomarch (haty-a) was the governor of a nome, one of ancient Egypt's provincial districts, whose office peaked from about 2160 to 1850 BCE before Senwosret III curtailed it.
Nome (Egypt)
A nome, called sepat in Egyptian, was the basic provincial division of ancient Egypt, traditionally 42 in number and used from the 2nd Dynasty into the Roman period.
Nu (mythology)
Nu, also Nun (Egyptian nenu, nuu), is the ancient Egyptian personification of the primeval waters of chaos, father of the gods, member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad paired with Naunet, from whose waters the primeval mound and Atum rose.
Nubayrah Stele
The Nubayrah Stele, also called the Stele of Nobaireh, is an Egyptian stele bearing a copy of the Decree of Memphis of Ptolemy V from 196 BC.