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Battle of Hamath
The Battle of Hamath was the destruction of the remnant of Pharaoh Necho II's Egyptian army by Babylonian troops under Nebuchadnezzar at Hamath on the Orontes in 605/604 BC.
Battle of Migdol (601 BC)
The Battle of Migdol in 601 BC saw Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon fight Necho II of Egypt to mutual heavy losses near Egypt's eastern frontier.
Battle of Momemphis
The Battle of Momemphis was a battle in late 570 BC in the western Nile Delta where Amasis defeated Pharaoh Apries and his Greek mercenaries.
Battle of Panium
The Battle of Panium, also called the Battle of Panion, was fought around 200 BC near Paneas between Antiochus III and the Ptolemaic general Scopas.
Battle of Pelusium (343 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium (343 BC) was the opening action of Artaxerxes III's Persian invasion of Egypt, defeating Pharaoh Nectanebo II and ending roughly sixty years of Egyptian independence.
Battle of Pelusium (525 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC was a decisive Persian victory in which Cambyses II defeated Pharaoh Psamtik III, opening Persia's conquest of Egypt.
Battle of Pelusium (674 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium (674 BC) was the first recorded Assyrian attempt to invade Egypt, ending in defeat of Esarhaddon's army by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa.
Battle of Prosopitis
The Battle of Prosopitis was the Persian siege and capture, around 455/4 BC, of the Greek and Egyptian force holding Prosopitis, an island in the Nile Delta.
Battle of the Delta
The Battle of the Delta, or Battle of the Nile Delta, was a naval battle in which Ramesses III defeated the Sea Peoples around 1176 BC.
Battle of the Oenoparus
The Battle of the Oenoparus was a July 145 BC battle in Syria where Ptolemy VI of Egypt defeated Alexander Balas but died of his wounds.
Battlefield Palette
The Battlefield Palette, also called the Vultures Palette, is an Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette from around 3150 BC, showing vultures and a lion over defeated men.
Beautiful Festival of the Valley
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley, or Beautiful Feast of the Valley, was an annual Theban festival in which Amun's statue crossed the Nile to visit mortuary temples.
Bebi (vizier)
Bebi was a high official of ancient Egypt's 11th Dynasty who served as vizier to King Mentuhotep II, known only from a relief caption at Deir el-Bahari.
Bebiankh
Bebiankh, throne name Seuserenre, was a king of the Theban 16th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the Turin King List with a 12-year reign.
Bebnum
Bebnum, also read Babnum, was a poorly attested king of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt, a Nile Delta dynasty of the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King-list.
Behenu
Behenu was a queen consort of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, buried in a small pyramid at South Saqqara; whether her husband was Pepi I or Pepi II is unknown.
Bek (chief sculptor)
Bek, also spelled Bak, was the chief royal sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten, active c. 1353–1336 BC during the Amarna period, and son of the sculptor Men.
Beketamun
Beketamun, meaning "servant of Amun", was a king's daughter of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, known from two objects, one dated to the reign of Thutmose III.
Ben-Azen
Ben-Azen, Egyptian name Ramses-em-per-Ra, is a supposedly high-ranking New Kingdom official under Ramesses II, Merenptah, and Ramesses III, proposed since the 1970s as a model for the biblical Moses.
Benben
Benben: sacred conical stone of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt, also called the ben-ben stone, embodying the primeval mound and the god Atum; predecessor of the obelisk and pyramidion (benbenet).
Benerib
Benerib was a royal woman of the Egyptian First Dynasty, linked to King Aha by inscribed objects from tomb B14 at Abydos, though no title names her.
Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, built by Sneferu c. 2613–2589 BC, changes slope from about 55 to 43 degrees at 49 m height; first intended true pyramid, still largely cased, reopened to tourists in 2019.
Bentresh Stela
The Bentresh Stela, also called the Bakhtan Stela, is a sandstone stela in the Louvre telling how the god Khonsu healed the princess Bentresh of Bakhtan.
Berenice I of Egypt
Berenice I of Egypt, also Berenike I, was a Macedonian noblewoman who became queen of Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Ptolemy II.
Berenice II
Berenice II, also known as Berenike II, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy III, regent during the Third Syrian War and murdered in 221 BC.
Berenice III
Berenice III, also known as Cleopatra Berenice, was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX and the only Ptolemaic queen to rule alone, murdered in 80 BC.
Berenice IV
Berenice IV, also spelled Berenike IV, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 58 to 55 BC, eldest daughter of Ptolemy XII and sister of Cleopatra VII.
Berenice Venus
The Berenice Venus is a statue of Venus (Aphrodite), named for the ancient city of Berenice at Benghazi in Cyrenaica, which replaced Euesperides around 247 BCE.
Berlin Execration Texts
The Berlin Execration Texts are Middle Kingdom execration texts written in hieratic on fired clay bowls, held in Berlin, listing foreign rulers and peoples known to Egypt.
Berlin Green Head
The Berlin Green Head (German: Grüner Kopf) is a greywacke sculpture of a bald man's head, probably late Ptolemaic Egyptian, kept in Berlin's Egyptian Museum.