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Nangishlishma
Nangishlishma (Nanĝišlišma) is a legendary early king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, third ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish after the flood.
Nanna-mansum
Nanna-mansum, read alternatively as Sîn-iddinam, was a diviner who dedicated a bronze figurine to the goddess Nanše for the well-being of Zabaya, probably the fourth king of Larsa, in the mid-twentieth century BC.
Nanni
Nanni was a merchant and investor at Ur around the 18th century BC, known for his cuneiform complaint letter to the copper trader Ea-naṣir about bad copper ingots.
Nanum (king of Akkad)
Nanum, also written Nanium or Naniyum, was one of four rivals, with Igigi, Imi, and Elulu, who claimed the kingship of Akkad for three joint years after 2193 BC.
Naos of the Decades
The Naos of the Decades is a granodiorite Egyptian shrine from the reign of Nectanebo I, inscribed with an astronomical calendar of 36 ten-day decan frames.
Naparaye
Naparaye was a royal woman of the Kushite (Napatan) kingdom of the seventh century BC, cataloged as great royal wife, royal wife, and royal sister under pharaoh Taharqa, with her burial place unresolved.
Napata
Napata, ancient capital of Kush near Karima, Sudan, at the Nile's fourth cataract at Jebel Barkal; founded as an Egyptian outpost, seat of the 25th Dynasty kings, later religious center of the Meroitic kingdom.
Napi-Ilhush
Napi-Ilhush was a king of Awan, the dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in ancient western Iran, listed sixth on the Awan King List from Susa, probably of the mid-third millennium BC.
Napir-Asu
Napir-Asu was a queen of Elam, wife of the Middle Elamite king Untash-Napirisha, known from a life-size bronze statue found at Susa in 1903 and displayed in the Louvre.
Naplanum
Naplanum (Naplanûm) is the figure the Larsa King List names as the first ruler of Larsa, credited with a 21-year reign c. 2025–2005 BC that no contemporary record confirms.
Naplimma
Naplimma, also rendered Napilima, was a Bronze Age king of Qatna in inland Syria, known only from temple treasure inventories found at Tell Mishrife near Homs in 1927.
Naqada culture
The Naqada culture, also known as the Naqada period, was a Predynastic Upper Egyptian culture of the fourth millennium BC, named after the site of Naqada.
Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt
The Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt, also called the Lower Egyptian–Naqada Transition, was the spread of Upper Egyptian Naqada culture into the Nile Delta from about 3350 BC, ending in unification around 3100 BC.
Naqada I
Naqada I, also called the Amratian, is the first phase of the Naqada culture of Predynastic Upper Egypt, running c. 4000-3500 BC with farming villages between Abydos and Hierakonpolis.
Naqada III
Naqada III, also called the Semainian culture, is the final phase of Egypt's Predynastic Naqada culture, about 3200-3000 BC, marked by Dynasty 0 kings and the earliest hieroglyphs.
Naqi'a
Naqi'a, also known as Zakutu, was an Assyrian queen, wife of Sennacherib and mother of Esarhaddon, best known for the loyalty treaty securing Ashurbanipal's succession around 669 BC.
Naram-Sin of Akkad
Naram-Sin of Akkad (Narām-Sîn) was a king of the Akkadian Empire, c. 2254–2218 BC, grandson of Sargon and the first Mesopotamian king to declare himself a god.
Naram-Sin of Eshnunna
Narām-Sîn of Eshnunna was a king of Eshnunna who reigned around 1810–1801 BC, conquering lands along the Tigris and Euphrates and forcing Mari into a treaty.
Naram-Sin's campaign against Ebla
Naram-Sin's campaign against Ebla was an Akkadian military expedition led by Naram-Sin of Akkad against the Syrian cities of Armanum and Ebla, known from his royal inscriptions.
Naram-Sin's campaign against Magan
Naram-Sin's campaign against Magan was a maritime expedition of the Akkadian Empire, in which Naram-Sin crossed the Persian Gulf and conquered Magan around 2250 BC.
Naravas
Naravas was a high-ranking Numidian who deserted the rebel mercenaries and joined Hamilcar Barca with 2,000 horsemen in 240 BC, helping save his army in the Mercenary War.
Narmer
Narmer, also identified by many Egyptologists with Menes, was the first king of Egypt's First Dynasty around 3100-3000 BC, known from the Narmer Palette found at Hierakonpolis, which shows him in both the White and Red Crowns as unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Narmer Macehead
The Narmer Macehead is a limestone ceremonial macehead attributed to King Narmer of Egypt's First Dynasty, about 3050 BC, found at Hierakonpolis and held at Oxford.
Narmer Palette
Narmer Palette: siltstone ceremonial cosmetic palette, 64 x 42 cm, from the Horus temple at Hierakonpolis, found 1897-1898 by Quibell and Green; shows King Narmer in both White and Red crowns, earliest hieroglyphs, now Cairo JdE 32169.
Nasakhma
Nasakhma was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning about 468–463 BC between Siaspiqa and Malewiebamani, and buried in pyramid Nu. 19 at Nuri near Napata.
Nasalsa
Nasalsa was a queen of the Napatan kingdom of Kush around 640–620 BC, the sister and wife of Senkamanisken and mother of kings Anlamani and Aspelta.
Nasamones
The Nasamones (Greek Νασαμῶνες) were an ancient Libyan nomadic herding people of the Greater Syrtis coast, described by Herodotus and annihilated by Rome in AD 86.
Nasha'karib Yuha'min Yuharhib
Nasha'karib Yuha'min Yuharhib (نشأكرب يهأمن يهرحب) was a King of Saba and Dhu Raydan in ancient South Arabia, reigning in the later 3rd century AD.
Nastasen
Nastasen was a king of Kush of the Napatan line, ruling around 335–315 BC, known from a granite stela in Berlin and buried at Nuri.
Nastasen's campaign in Lower Nubia
Nastasen's campaign in Lower Nubia was a military expedition by the Kushite king Nastasen against the chieftain Kambasawden, recorded on a stela now in Berlin.