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Wepwawetemsaf
Wepwawetemsaf, with the throne name Sekhemra-neferkhau, was a pharaoh of the late Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, attested almost entirely by a single stela from Abydos and possibly a graffito at Beni Hasan.
Weret-yamtes
Weret-yamtes was a royal wife of Pepi I, a 6th Dynasty king of Egypt's Old Kingdom, accused in a harem conspiracy recorded in Weni's autobiography.
Westcar Papyrus
The Westcar Papyrus (Papyrus Berlin 3033) is an Egyptian papyrus of wonder tales told at King Khufu's court, copied around 1600 BC and kept in Berlin.
Wetka
Wetka, also written Tuka or Tuwka, was a prince of Egypt's Old Kingdom, known only from relief scenes in the Giza tomb chapel of his father Khufukhaf I.
Wilbour Papyrus
The Wilbour Papyrus is a hieratic administrative papyrus of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty recording a land survey of Middle Egypt in Year 4 of Ramesses V, held by the Brooklyn Museum.
Wilbour Plaque
The Wilbour Plaque is a small limestone sunk-relief plaque showing Akhenaten and Nefertiti, carved in Egypt around 1352–1336 BCE and now in the Brooklyn Museum.
Will of Naunakhte
The Will of Naunakhte is a legal document from Deir el-Medina in which the workwoman Naunakhte disinherited children who failed to care for her in old age, c. 1142 BC.
Will of Ptolemy VIII
The will of Ptolemy VIII, also called the Testament of Ptolemy Euergetes II, was a 155 BC testament bequeathing his kingdom of Cyrenaica to Rome if he died without heirs.
Will of Ptolemy X
The will of Ptolemy X Alexander I was a reported testament, first attested by Cicero, making the Roman People heirs of his Egyptian kingdom; Rome never acted on it.
Will of Ptolemy XI
The will of Ptolemy XI was a reported testament in which Ptolemy XI, king of Egypt in 80 BC, made the Roman People heir to his kingdom.
Withdrawal of Assyrian garrisons from Egypt
The withdrawal of Assyrian garrisons from Egypt ended the Neo-Assyrian Empire's hold on Egypt in the mid-7th century BCE, when Psamtik I cleared the garrisons and founded an independent Egyptian state.
Ya'ammu Nubwoserre
Ya'ammu Nubwoserre was a minor pharaoh of Egypt's 14th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning c. 1780–1770 BC and known only from scarab seals bearing his two names.
Yakareb
Yakareb was a king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC, known only from two crudely cut scarab seals, one in the Petrie Museum.
Yakbim
Yakbim, also known as Sekhaenre Yakbim, was a Second Intermediate Period king of ancient Egypt, placed first among the Fourteenth Dynasty in Ryholt's reconstruction and attested only by inscribed seals.
Yanassi
Yanassi, also known as Iannas, is a royal figure of Egypt's Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty, placed by some scholars between Khyan and Apophis in the 16th century BC, though his kingship is disputed.
Year 400 Stela
The Year 400 Stela is a granite stela erected under Ramesses II commemorating the 400th anniversary of an era of the god Seth, now in Cairo.
Yuf
Yuf was a priest and official of early 18th Dynasty Egypt, serving Queens Ahhotep and Ahmose under Ahmose I; his career is recorded on stela CG 34009 from Edfu.
Yuny (19th Dynasty official)
Yuny was a chief royal scribe of Egypt's 19th Dynasty under Seti I, known from limestone statues of him and his wife Renenutet in the Metropolitan Museum.
Yupa (Viceroy of Kush)
Yupa, also vocalized Iupa, was a scribe and superintendent at the court of Ramesses II, known from a black granite statue held by the Krannert Art Museum.
Yuti (sculptor)
Yuti was an ancient Egyptian chief sculptor of the Amarna period under Akhenaten, shown painting the statue of Princess Beketaten in the tomb of Huye at Tell el-Amarna.
Yuya
Yuya, also known as Iouiya or Yuaa, was an Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth Dynasty who held the titles God's Father and Master of the Horse.
Zamonth
Zamonth, also written Zamont and called Resseneb, was a vizier of ancient Egypt under king Amenemhat III at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty; his son Ankhu succeeded him as vizier.
Zannanza affair
The Zannanza affair was a diplomatic episode around 1327 BC in which a widowed Egyptian queen asked the Hittite king for a son to marry; the prince died en route.
Zatipy
Zatipy, meaning "daughter of Ipy", was an Egyptian woman of the early 12th Dynasty, attested in tomb 14 at Beni Hasan and dated to the reign of Amenemhat I.
Zenon Archive
The Zenon Archive is the largest surviving papyrus archive from Ancient Egypt, the working papers of Zenon of Caunus, estate manager for the finance minister of Ptolemy II.