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Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit
Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit, meaning "Ankhesenpaaten the Younger", was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, generally thought to be the daughter of princess Ankhesenpaaten, though her parentage is disputed.
Ankhesenpepi I
Ankhesenpepi I, also written Ankhesenmeryre I, was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian queen consort of pharaoh Pepi I, commonly credited as the mother of Merenre I.
Ankhesenpepi II
Ankhesenpepi II, also written Ankhenespepi II or Ankhenesmeryre II, was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian queen, wife of Pepy I and Merenre I, mother of Pepy II, and his regent.
Ankhesenpepi III
Ankhesenpepi III, also written Ânkhnespépy III, was a Sixth Dynasty queen of ancient Egypt, a daughter of Merenre I and wife of Pepi II, buried at South Saqqara.
Ankhesenpepi IV
Ankhesenpepi IV was a queen consort of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a wife of King Pepy II and a possible mother of King Neferkare Neby.
Ankhhaf
Ankhhaf was a prince and vizier of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty who served under Khufu and Khafre and owned the largest mastaba in Giza's Eastern Cemetery.
Ankhka
Ankhka, also written Ankh-ka or Anchka, was a high official of Egypt's First Dynasty, the first of three chancellors serving under King Den around 3000 BCE.
Ankhmahor
Ankhmahor, also written Ankhmahor-Sesi, was a vizier under King Teti, first king of Egypt's Dynasty 6, around 2340 BC, buried in a Saqqara mastaba called the Tomb of the Physician for its circumcision relief.
Ankhmare
Ankhmare was a prince and vizier of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a royal son probably of King Khafre, attested in the Giza necropolis by his own mastaba, G 8460.
Ankhnesneferibre
Ankhnesneferibre, also written Ankhenesneferibre, was a 26th Dynasty Egyptian princess, daughter of Psamtik II, who became the last attested God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.
Ankhtifi
Ankhtifi, also written Ankhtify, was a nomarch of Edfu and Hierakonpolis in Egypt's First Intermediate Period around 2100 BC, whose rock-cut tomb at Mo'alla holds one of the era's best-preserved autobiographies.
Ankhu (vizier)
Ankhu was a vizier of ancient Egypt who held the southern half of a divided vizierate, seated at Thebes, during the Thirteenth Dynasty around 1790 BC.
Ankhwa
Ankhwa was an ancient Egyptian official of the Third Dynasty, around 2686–2613 BC, who held the titles royal acquaintance and shipwright, known from a granite statue in the British Museum.
Ankhwennefer (Egyptian rebel ruler)
Ankhwennefer, called Chaonnophris in Greek, was an Egyptian rebel pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the Great Theban Revolt, defeated and executed by Ptolemy V in 186 BC.
Anlamani
Anlamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled in the late seventh century BC, succeeding his father Senkamanisken before his brother Aspelta.
Annals of Amenemhat II
The Annals of Amenemhat II are a fragmentary red granite inscription recording the campaigns, expeditions, and tribute of the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat II, found at Memphis.
Annals of Hattusili I
The Annals of Hattusili I are an Old Hittite text, cataloged as CTH 4, recording year by year the campaigns of King Hattusili I around 1650 to 1620 BC.
Annals of Sarduri II
The Annals of Sarduri II, known as the Chronicle from Van, are a lengthy Urartian cuneiform inscription carved at the Van fortress recording King Sarduri II's yearly military campaigns.
Annals of Thutmose III
The Annals of Thutmose III, also known as the Karnak Annals, are a long inscription at Karnak temple recording the Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III (c. 1479–1425 BC), year by year from Megiddo to year 42.
Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III
The Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III are the chronologically arranged royal inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria, composed for his palace at Kalhu and narrating yearly campaigns.
Annals of Tyre
The Annals of Tyre, also called the Tyrian Annals, were a lost Phoenician chronicle of Tyre's kings, surviving only in Greek excerpts quoted by Josephus.
Annexation of Carchemish
The annexation of Carchemish, also called the Assyrian conquest of Carchemish, was Sargon II's 717 BC conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish on the Euphrates.
Annexation of Kummuh
The annexation of Kummuh was the absorption of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh, also known as Commagene, into the Assyrian empire by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Anniya
Anniya, also written Anniyas or Anniyash, was the last named king of Azzi-Hayasa in eastern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1321–1295 BC.
Anra scarab
Anra scarabs are design scarabs of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period whose bases always include the hieroglyphs n and r, produced mainly in Canaan around 1650 to 1530 BC.
Ansud
Ansud, also written Ansub or Hanusu, was an Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, roughly contemporary with Mesannepada of Ur and known from short excavated inscriptions.
Antakya Stele
The Antakya Stele, also known as the Tavla Stele, is a Neo-Assyrian stela of Adad-nirari III recording a border settlement between Ataršumki of Arpad and Zakkur of Hamath.
Anthropoid ceramic coffins
Anthropoid ceramic coffins are clay burial coffins shaped as tubs with lids molded as a human face, used in the Levant mainly in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Antigone of Epirus
Antigone of Epirus was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman, daughter of Berenice I, who married Pyrrhus I and was queen of Epirus until her death in 295 BC.
Antigone of Macedon
Antigone of Macedon was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noblewoman, niece of the regent Antipater, known as the mother of Berenice I and ancestor of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.