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Amenhotep I
Amenhotep I, also known as Amenophis I, was the second pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who ruled c. 1525–1504 BC and was later worshipped as a god.
Amenhotep II
Amenhotep II (Aakheperura) was a pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, son of Thutmose III, who reigned about 1425–1399 BC and was buried in tomb KV35, found in 1898 with a cache of royal mummies.
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III (Nebmaatra), ninth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, reigned about 38 years, c. 1391–1353 BC, at the peak of imperial wealth; builder of Luxor, Malqata, Kom el-Hettan, and husband of Tiye.
Amenhotep son of Hapu
Amenhotep son of Hapu was an Egyptian architect and royal scribe under Amenhotep III, worshipped as a healing god for about a millennium after his death.
Amenia (Egyptian queen consort)
Amenia was the first recorded wife of Horemheb, the general who became the last king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty; she died before his accession and never bore a queen's title.
Amenirdis I
Amenirdis I was a Kushite princess of Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty, daughter of King Kashta, who held the powerful office of God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, legitimizing Kushite rule there.
Amenirdis II
Amenirdis II was a Kushite princess of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, daughter of the pharaoh Taharqa, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.
Amenmesse
Amenmesse, also written Amenmeses, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, about 1203–1199 BC, generally read today as a rival king controlling Thebes during Seti II's reign.
Amenmose (son of Thutmose I)
Amenmose was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 18th Dynasty, the eldest son and heir of Pharaoh Thutmose I, who predeceased his father and never took the throne.
Amenmose (vizier)
Amenmose, also written Amunmose, was a vizier of Egypt in the late Nineteenth Dynasty, attested in a Theban relief beside King Amenmesse and named in Papyrus Salt 124, which records him punishing the workman Paneb.
Amennakht (foreman)
Amennakht, also known as Amenakhte, was a foreman of the Deir el-Medina work-crew of royal tomb craftsmen in 19th-Dynasty Egypt, under Sethi I and Ramesses II.
Amennakht (Scribe of the Tomb)
Amennakht, son of Ipuy, was the senior Scribe of the Tomb at Deir el-Medina in Egypt's 20th Dynasty, central to the first recorded labor strike.
Ameny (general)
Ameny was a chief general of the Egyptian army under King Amenemhat II of the Twelfth Dynasty, known from stelae at Abydos and a tomb at Lisht.
Ameny (vizier under Amenemhat II)
Ameny was a high official of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, attested as overseer of marshland dwellers and governor of Elephantine around the transition from Senwosret I to Amenemhat II.
Ameny Qemau
Ameny Qemau was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty who reigned about two years around 1790 BC, and is known chiefly from his pyramid at south Dahshur, discovered in 1957.
Amenyseneb
Amenyseneb, also transcribed Imenyseneb or Amenysoneb, was an ancient Egyptian official and wab-priest at Abydos under pharaoh Khendjer, c. 1750 BC, known from four stelae and for restoring the Osiris temple.
Amethu called Ahmose
Amethu called Ahmose, also rendered Aametju, was a vizier and Mayor of Thebes in the early 18th Dynasty, father of the vizier Useramun and grandfather of Rekhmire.
Amherst papyri
The Amherst papyri are a collection of about 200 ancient Egyptian papyri in several scripts, assembled by Lord Amherst and bought by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1912.
Amka (official)
Amka was a high official of Early Dynastic Egypt who served under the First Dynasty and is known from clay seal impressions naming him and his office.
Ammeris
Ammeris, also known as Ameres, is a Nubian figure whom Manetho's king list places at the head of Egypt's Dynasty 26, dated to about 715–695 BC; he is known only from Greek sources.
Ammit
Ammit (Ammut, ꜥm-mwt, "devourer of the dead") was the composite crocodile-lion-hippopotamus being who ate the hearts of the unjustified dead at the Egyptian Weighing of the Heart; she had no cult.
Ammu (pharaoh)
Ammu, also known as Aahotepre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, conventionally the fourth king of the 14th Dynasty, known only from scarab seals and dated around 1760 to 1745 BC.
Amun
Amun (Imen, "the hidden one"), also Amon or Amun-Re, was the ancient Egyptian creator and air god of Thebes who rose to king of the gods in the New Kingdom, centered at Karnak, with consort Mut and son Khonsu.
Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses II)
Amun-her-khepeshef, also known as Amun-her-khepsef, was the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who served as an army general and overseer of the chariotry and was buried in tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.
Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses III)
Amun-her-khepeshef, also written Amenherkhepshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III, buried in tomb QV55 in the Valley of the Queens.
Amunet
Amunet (Amaunet, Jmn.t), ancient Egyptian goddess, feminine counterpart of Amun in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad and a Theban consort of Amun; wears the Red Crown, later superseded by Mut, fused with Neith, worshipped into the Ptolemaic period.
Amyrtaeus of Sais
Amyrtaeus of Sais (Greek Amyrtaios) was a prince of the Delta city of Sais who, invested as king of Egypt, joined Inaros in the rebellion against Persian king Artaxerxes I around 460 BC.
Ananias ben Onias
Ananias ben Onias (Hebrew Hananiya ben Honiyyahu) was a Jewish general in Ptolemaic Egypt, son of the high priest Onias IV, who dissuaded Cleopatra III from annexing Judea.
Anastasi papyri
The Anastasi papyri are nine Ramesside hieratic papyri of ancient Egypt's 19th Dynasty, written around 1200 BC and bought by the British Museum in 1839 from Giovanni Anastasi, the Swedish consul in Egypt.
Anat-her
Anat-her, also written Anat-har or Anather, is a poorly attested ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known from a single scarab and possibly the first 16th Dynasty king.