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Neferthenut
Neferthenut, also rendered Nefrethenut, was a queen of the Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian king Senusret III, buried in one of four small pyramids north of his pyramid at Dahshur.
Nefertiabet
Nefertiabet was a princess of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, buried in mastaba G 1225 at Giza and known from her painted limestone stela, now in the Louvre.
Nefertiti
Nefertiti (Neferneferuaten Nefertiti), Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, famed through the 1912-discovered painted bust in Berlin's Neues Museum; possibly reigned as pharaoh Neferneferuaten.
Nefertkau I
Nefertkau I was a princess of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Sneferu and mother of Nefermaat, who lived at Giza in the 26th century BC.
Nefertkau II
Nefertkau II was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian noblewoman, the wife of Prince Khufukhaf I, a son of King Khufu, buried in mastaba G 7130 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza.
Nefertkau III
Nefertkau III, recorded as Nefretkau in Reisner's excavation records, was a Fourth Dynasty princess buried with her husband Iynefer in mastaba G 7820 in the Giza Eastern Cemetery.
Nefertnesu
Nefertnesu was a royal woman of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, known only from the false door of her son Kaemqed at Dashur, which names and titles her.
Neferu II
Neferu II was a queen of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, probably the royal wife and sister of Mentuhotep II, buried in rock-cut tomb TT 319 at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes.
Neferu III
Neferu III was an Egyptian queen of the Twelfth Dynasty who linked three kings: daughter of Amenemhat I, wife of Senusret I, and mother of Amenemhat II.
Neferubity
Neferubity, also written Nefrubity, was a princess of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty, a daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose and sister of the pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Neferuptah
Neferuptah, also known as Nefruptah, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian princess and daughter of King Amenemhat III, known from her undisturbed burial at Hawara in the Fayum, excavated in 1956.
Neferure
Neferure, also written Nefrure or Neferura, was an Egyptian princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty, the only child of Queen Hatshepsut and King Thutmose II, and God's Wife of Amun.
Neferweben (vizier)
Neferweben was an official of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, identified by one museum record as a vizier under Thutmose III and known from statues and canopic jars.
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, also known as Nehemiah's wall, was a 52-day restoration of the city's fortifications described in the Book of Nehemiah, traditionally dated to 445 BC.
Neheri I
Neheri I, also written Nehri, was a nomarch, or provincial governor, of the Hare nome of Upper Egypt in the late 11th or early 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom.
Neheri II
Neheri II, also transcribed Nhri or Nehri, was a governor of the Hare nome in Upper Egypt during the early Twelfth Dynasty, buried in rock-cut tomb 7 at Deir el-Bersha.
Nehesy
Nehesy, throne name Aasehre, was a king of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, around 1705 BC, ruling from Avaris in the north-eastern Nile Delta.
Nehmes Bastet
Nehmes Bastet, also written Nehemes-Bastet, was a chantress of Amun, a temple singer of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, whose intact burial was found in tomb KV64 in 2012.
Nehri I
Nehri I was a governor, or great overlord, of the 15th Upper Egyptian (Hare) nome in Middle Kingdom Egypt, buried in a rock-cut tomb at Deir el-Bersha and known from inscriptions at the Hatnub alabaster quarries.
Nehsi
Nehsi, also spelled Nehesi, was an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian treasurer under Queen Hatshepsut, best known for leading her trading expedition to the Land of Punt.
Nehushta
Nehushta (Hebrew נְחֻשְׁתָּא) was a queen of Judah, wife of King Jehoiakim and mother of King Jehoiachin, whom she accompanied into Babylonian exile in 597 BC.
Neirab stelae
The Neirab stelae are two 7th-century BC Aramaic funerary stelae of two priests of the moon god Sahar, found near Aleppo and kept in the Louvre.
Neithhotep
Neithhotep was a queen of Egypt's First Dynasty around 3100 BC, one of the earliest named women in Egyptian history, known from a large mastaba tomb at Naqada.
Nekauba
Nekauba, Greek form Nechepsos, is a disputed early ruler of Sais in the Egyptian Delta, placed by Manetho before Necho I with a six-year reign and no contemporary attestation.
Nekhebu
Nekhebu was a royal architect and overseer of all works of the king in ancient Egypt under the Sixth Dynasty pharaoh Pepi I, known from his tomb inscriptions at Giza.
Nekhen nome
The Nekhen nome, also called the Hierakonpolite nome, was the third nome of Upper Egypt, an administrative division centered on Nekhen, known in Greek as Hierakonpolis, near Edfu.
Nekure
Nekure, also rendered Nikaure, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, known from his mastaba tomb G 8158 in the Giza necropolis.
Neni (queen)
Neni was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty, known only from stelae; her royal husband is disputed between Sobekhotep II and Sobekhotep III.
Nenkhefetkai
Nenkhefetkai, also written Nenkheftka, was a late Old Kingdom Egyptian provincial official and mayor of his town, known from his rock-cut tomb and twelve statues excavated by Flinders Petrie at Deshasheh around 2350 BC.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE) was the largest imperial polity of the ancient Near East before Achaemenid Persia, spanning over one million square kilometres under kings such as Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Ashurbanipal, known for relay roads, mass deportation, and the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE.