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Tjan (queen)
Tjan was an Egyptian queen consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty, the only known wife of King Sobekhotep IV, attested by a scarab in the Louvre and flourishing around the mid-18th century BC.
Tjanefer (Third Prophet of Amun)
Tjanefer was a Theban priest of the 21st Dynasty, Third and later Second Prophet of Amun, son of Menkheperre A and half-brother of Pinedjem II.
Tjanuny
Tjanuny, also known as Tjanuni, was an Egyptian royal scribe and military officer of Dynasty 18 who served Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, and Thutmose IV, and owned Theban tomb TT74.
Tjauti
Tjauti was an ancient Egyptian official, nomarch of the 5th Upper Egyptian nome and overseer of Upper Egypt, known from a rock inscription about reopening a desert road.
Tjesraperet
Tjesraperet was a royal wet nurse of a daughter of Pharaoh Taharqa in Egypt's 25th Dynasty, known only from a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris funerary figure bearing her name and title.
Tjetji
Tjetji was a chief treasurer of the Theban 11th Dynasty who served kings Intef II and Intef III, known from his autobiographical stela in the British Museum.
Tjuneroy
Tjunery, also written Tjuneroy, was a Dynasty 19 Egyptian official under Ramesses II, known for the royal ancestor list carved in his tomb chapel at Saqqara.
Tlepolemus (regent)
Tlepolemus (Greek Tlepolemos) was a Ptolemaic general and strategos of Pelusium who served as chief minister and regent for the child king Ptolemy V from 203 or 202 BC until 202 or 201 BC.
Tomb of Alexander the Great
The Tomb of Alexander the Great is his lost burial place in Alexandria, Egypt, where his embalmed body drew Roman emperors until the tomb's location vanished.
Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra
Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra: the shared, still-unfound burial of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII, built near a temple of Isis in Alexandria, now sought underwater there and at Taposiris Magna.
Tomb of Tutankhamun
KV62, the Valley of the Kings tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1336–1327 BC), found nearly intact by Howard Carter on 4 November 1922; small four-chamber tomb with about 5,000 artifacts, only its burial chamber decorated.
Tomb robberies of the Ramesside era
The tomb robberies of the Ramesside era were thefts from the Theban necropolis in the late 20th Dynasty of Egypt, c. 1110–1070 BC, investigated by commissions recorded in the Tomb Robbery Papyri.
Tombos Stela
The Tombos Stela is a large rock-cut victory stela of the Egyptian king Thutmose I, carved in his regnal Year 2 at Tombos in Nubia near the Third Cataract.
Toparch
A toparch (Greek toparchēs) governed a toparchy, a district of several villages within a nome of Ptolemaic Egypt from the third century BC, mainly collecting revenue.
Treasurer (Ancient Egypt)
The treasurer of ancient Egypt, whose title imi-r ḫtmt means "overseer of sealed things", was a high court official controlling incoming palace goods, expeditions, and building projects.
Triad of Menkaure
The Triads of Menkaure are greywacke statues of the Fourth Dynasty king Menkaure flanked by Hathor and a nome personification, found at Giza in 1908.
Tryphaena (Ptolemaic princess)
Tryphaena was a Ptolemaic princess, eldest daughter of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III, who became queen of the Seleucid Empire as wife of Antiochus VIII Grypus.
Tsenhor
Tsenhor was a Theban businesswoman and choachyte, a funerary priest, whose Demotic family archive of contracts spans 556 to 491 BC under Saite and Persian rule.
Turin Erotic Papyrus
The Turin Erotic Papyrus (Papyrus Turin 55001) is a fragmentary Ramesside Egyptian papyrus in the Museo Egizio, Turin, showing satirical animal scenes and twelve erotic scenes with captions.
Turin King List
The Turin King List, also called the Turin Canon, is a hieratic Egyptian papyrus listing rulers and their reign lengths, now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Turin Papyrus Map
The Turin Papyrus Map, also called the Turin Gold Mining Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian map of the Wadi Hammamat gold-mining district, drawn around 1150 BC.
Turin Strike Papyrus
The Turin Strike Papyrus records the work stoppages of the tomb builders of Deir el-Medina over unpaid rations in year 29 of Ramesses III, around 1158 BCE.
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (Tutankhaten), 18th Dynasty pharaoh 1336–1327 BCE, restored Egypt's old religion after Akhenaten; his nearly intact tomb KV62, found by Howard Carter in November 1922, made him Egypt's most famous king.
Tutankhamun's mummy
Tutankhamun's mummy, the body of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh found in tomb KV62 in 1922, still kept in the Valley of the Kings; examined by X-rays, the 2005 CT scan, and contested 2010 DNA studies of his family and pathologies.
Tutankhamun's trumpets
Tutankhamun's trumpets are a bronze and a silver trumpet from the 18th Dynasty reign of Tutankhamun, found in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.
Tutkheperre Shoshenq
Tutkheperre Shoshenq, officially Shoshenq IIb, was a poorly attested pharaoh of the early Twenty-Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from monuments at Bubastis and finds at Abydos.
Tutu (Egyptian chamberlain)
Tutu (Ṭutu) was an Egyptian chamberlain at the court of Akhenaten in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and his tomb at Amarna.
Tuya
Tuya, also called Mut-Tuya, was the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Seti I and mother of Ramesses II, buried in the Valley of the Queens.
Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt
Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 12): Middle Kingdom dynasty founded by Amenemhat I, ruling c. 1990-1809 BC from Itjtawy, with Senusret III, Amenemhat III's Faiyum works, and queen Sobekneferu as its last ruler.
Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as Dynasty 20, was the last dynasty of the New Kingdom, ruling from about 1186 to 1069 BCE.