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Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also called the Golenischev Mathematical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical text from about 1850 BC containing 25 problems with worked solutions.
Mount Ebal lead tablet
The Mount Ebal lead tablet is a small folded lead object found on Mount Ebal in 2019, claimed to bear the earliest Hebrew inscription, a reading many scholars dispute.
Mouseion of Alexandria
The Mouseion of Alexandria, also called the Museum of Alexandria, was a state-funded community of salaried scholars in Egypt, set up under the first two Ptolemies in the 3rd century BC.
Move of the capital to Tarhuntassa
Hittite great king Muwattalli II moved the empire's capital from Hattusa to Tarhuntassa, a city he founded in southern Anatolia, before the Battle of Qadesh around 1275 BC.
Muballitat-Sherua
Muballitat-Sherua was an Assyrian princess of the mid-14th century BC, daughter of Aššur-uballit I, who married Kassite king Burnaburiaš II; her son Kara-ḫardaš's murder triggered an Assyrian invasion of Babylonia.
Mug-si
Mug-si, also written Muk-si, was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Adab, modern Bismaya, Iraq, during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, about 2500-2340 BC.
Mugallu
Mugallu, also written Mukalli, was a king of Melid and then of Tabal in Central Anatolia, recorded by the Assyrians from 675 BC and succeeded by his son around 640 BC.
Mukannishum
Mukannišum was the steward, or keeper of the palace stores, at Mari under King Zimri-Lim in the 18th century BC, known from cuneiform tablets in the Mari archives.
Mukarrib
Mukarrib was the royal title of the early rulers of Sabaʾ in ancient South Arabia, later borne by rulers of other kingdoms and eventually replaced by 'king'.
Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua
Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua was a queen of Assyria in the ninth century BC, wife of King Ashurnasirpal II and the first queen attested in the Neo-Assyrian Period.
Mummies 317a and 317b
Mummies 317a and 317b are two mummified fetuses found in 1922 in Tutankhamun's tomb KV62, likely his stillborn daughters, deliberately embalmed and buried with him.
Murashu Archive
The Murashu Archive, also called the Murašû Archive, is a group of Babylonian legal tablets recording a family firm's business at Nippur from 454 to 404 BC.
Mursili I
Mursili I, also written Muršili I or Mursilis I, was a Hittite king who captured Aleppo and sacked Babylon around 1595 BC before being assassinated.
Mursili II
Mursili II, also known as Muršili II, was a Hittite king who reigned c. 1321–1295 BC, son of Suppiluliuma I, known for his annals and plague prayers.
Mursili II's Arzawa campaign
Mursili II's Arzawa campaign was a two-year Hittite conquest of the kingdom of Arzawa in western Anatolia, led by King Mursili II around 1320–1319 BC.
Mursili III
Mursili III, born Urhi-Teshub, was a king of the Hittite Empire who reigned c. 1272–1267 BC, restored Hattusa as capital, and was deposed by his uncle Hattusili III.
Mursili's eclipse
Mursili's eclipse is a solar omen recorded in the tenth regnal year of Hittite king Mursili II, long read by scholars as an eclipse usable to anchor Hittite chronology.
Mushezib-Marduk
Mushezib-Marduk (Mušēzib-Marduk) was a Chaldean king of Babylon from 692 to 689 BC who allied with Elam against Sennacherib of Assyria and fought at Halule in 691 BC.
Mushkenum
Mushkenum (muškēnum) is a person's status in Old Babylonian law codes of about 2000–1600 BC, ranked between the free awīlum and the enslaved wardum, and long debated by Assyriologists.
Mushki
The Mushki (Muški, also Mushku) were an Iron Age Anatolian people, defeated by Tiglath-pileser I around 1114 BC and later ruled by Mita, usually identified with Midas of Phrygia.
Musulamii
The Musulamii were a Berber tribal confederation of southern Numidia and parts of Africa Proconsularis, first named in AD 5–6 and best known for Tacfarinas' revolt of AD 17–24.
Mut
Mut (Mwt), ancient Egyptian mother goddess, wife of Amun and mother of Khonsu in the Theban triad, Queen of the Gods from the New Kingdom, vulture-headdress iconography, cult center at the Mut Precinct, South Karnak.
Mutakkil-Nusku
Mutakkil-Nusku was a king of Assyria around 1133 BC who won a succession fight against his brother Ninurta-tukulti-Aššur, drove him to Babylonia, and briefly held the throne.
Mutallu
Mutallu, called Muwattalli in Assyrian records, was the last attested king of Kummuh, a Late Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates annexed by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Mutbaal (ruler of Pella)
Mutbaal, also written Mut-Baalu, was ruler of Pella in the Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the mid-14th century BC, known as the author of Amarna letter EA 255.
Mutbenret
Mutbenret was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian royal in-law, traditionally identified as the sister of Queen Nefertiti, attested in the Amarna tombs of the 1350s BC.
Mutemwiya
Mutemwiya, also written Mutemweya or Mutemwia, was a wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV and mother of his successor Amenhotep III, queens of Egypt's 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom.
Muthis
Muthis is a putative king of Egypt's Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Mendes, assigned a one-year reign in the early fourth century BC and known only from Eusebius' version of Manetho's Epitome.
Mutnedjmet (Great Royal Wife of Horemheb)
Mutnedjmet, also written Mutnodjmet, was the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the last king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty. She was buried with an infant in his tomb at Saqqara.
Mutnofret
Mutnofret, also rendered Mutnefert, was a queen of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a secondary wife of Thutmose I and mother of his successor Thutmose II, around 1500 BC.