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Reign of Crocodile
Horus Crocodile is a putative ruler of Dynasty 0 in ancient Egypt, proposed by Günter Dreyer from ink inscriptions at Tarkhan, though his existence is disputed.
Reign of Den
Den, throne name Semti, was a First Dynasty king of Egypt who ruled in the twenty-ninth century BCE, the first attested with the title King of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Reign of Teqerideamani II
Teqerideamani II was a king of Kush, the Meroitic kingdom in what is now Sudan, who reigned from 245/246 to after 265/66 AD, in the kingdom's last century.
Reisner Papyri
The Reisner Papyri are four Middle Kingdom administrative papyri from Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, excavated by George Reisner and held at UC Berkeley, recording construction, dockyard, and labor accounts.
Rekhetre
Rekhetre, also written Rekhit-Ra', was a king's daughter and king's wife of Old Kingdom Egypt, a daughter of Khafre buried in mastaba G 8530 at Giza.
Rekhmire
Rekhmire, also Rekhmira, was a vizier of Egypt and governor of Thebes under the 18th-Dynasty kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, in the first half of the 15th century BC.
Religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation
The religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Harappan civilization of about 2600 to 1900 BC, is known only from seals, figurines, architecture, and burials, as its script is undeciphered.
Religious Chronicle
The Religious Chronicle is a Babylonian chronicle text, designated ABC 17, a late copy of earlier records found in the Esagil temple library at Babylon in the 1870s.
Remaliah
Remaliah (Hebrew Remalyahu) was an 8th-century BC Israelite known only as the father of Pekah, the next-to-last king of Israel; he never appears acting in any narrative.
Removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I
The removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I was the carrying of Babylon's statue of Marduk to Assyria after the Middle Assyrian king captured Kaštiliaš IV, around 1225 BC.
Removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa
The removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa was the transfer of the stele from Sippar to Susa as Elamite war booty in the 12th century BC.
Renseneb
Renseneb, written rn(.i)-snb(w), was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty attested on the Turin King List and a glazed steatite bead, with a four-month reign around 1777 BC.
Repair inscription of the Marib Dam
The repair inscription of the Marib Dam, known as the Abraha inscription CIH 541, is a Sabaic stela recording Abraha's reconstruction of the Great Dam of Maʾrib in 548.
Report of Wenamun
The Report of Wenamun, also called the Tale of Wenamun, is a Late Egyptian papyrus in Moscow telling of an official sent to Byblos for cedar wood.
Reptynub
Reptynub, also written Reputneb, was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, known as the wife of King Nyuserre Ini and attested by a statue found at Abusir.
RES 3945
RES 3945, the Karib'il Watar res gestae inscription, is a monumental Sabaic text recording eight campaigns of Saba's expansion in the early 7th century BC.
Reserve head
A reserve head (Giza reserve heads) is a portrait-like limestone head buried in the substructure of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs at Giza, made mostly during Khufu's Fourth Dynasty reign.
Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
The resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was a state program of mass deportation that moved millions of people between the 9th and late 7th century BC.
Resseneb (son of Ankhu)
Resseneb was a vizier of Egypt in the Thirteenth Dynasty, son of the vizier Ankhu and brother of the vizier Iymeru, and earlier his scribe.
Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun
The Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun, also known as the Restoration inscription of Tutankhamun, is a stone stela from Karnak proclaiming the return to traditional Egyptian religion after Akhenaten's reforms.
Restoration under Tutankhamun
The restoration under Tutankhamun, also called the Restoration of Amun, restored Egypt's traditional gods and temples after Akhenaten's Atenism, documented by the Restoration Stela from Karnak.
Retreat of Taharqa to Kush
The retreat of Taharqa to Kush was the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa's withdrawal from Egypt to Napata after defeat by Ashurbanipal's Assyrians in 667 BC, ending Kushite rule in Egypt.
Return of Zimri-Lim to Mari
The return of Zimri-Lim to Mari was the exiled prince's recovery of Mari around 1776 BC, ending Assyrian rule and restoring the Lim dynasty to power.
Return to Zion
The Return to Zion, or Return from the Babylonian exile (Hebrew Shivat Tziyon), was the return of Judean exiles to Yehud after Cyrus's 538 BC decree, beginning the Second Temple period.
Revenue Laws Papyrus
The Revenue Laws Papyrus (P.Rev.) is a Greek papyrus from Ptolemaic Egypt, dated to 259/8 BC, compiling royal ordinances on taxation, tax farming, and the oil monopoly.
Revolt of Absalom
The Revolt of Absalom was the rebellion of Absalom, third son of King David, against his father, declared at Hebron and ending with Absalom's death at Joab's hands.
Revolt of Acoris
The Revolt of Acoris, more accurately Achoris' wars, was the Persian attempt to retake Egypt under Artaxerxes II, repelled by pharaoh Achoris around 385-383 BC, leaving Egypt independent.
Revolt of Amyrtaeus
The Revolt of Amyrtaeus was the Egyptian insurrection of 405/4–404 BC in which Amyrtaeus of Sais ended the First Persian Period and restored native rule.
Revolt of Arrapha
The Revolt of Arrapha was an uprising in the Assyrian provincial city of Arrapha, modern Kirkuk, recorded for 761 and 760 BC under King Ashur-dan III.
Revolt of Ashur-danin-apla
The Revolt of Ashur-danin-apla, the Assyrian civil war of 827–824 BC, was a six-year succession war in which the prince fought his brother Shamshi-Adad V.