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Taharqa's war with Sennacherib
Taharqa's war with Sennacherib is the conventional name for the 701 BC battle near Eltekeh, where Assyria under Sennacherib fought a Kushite-Egyptian army of Egypt's 25th Dynasty.
Tahpenes
Tahpenes, also known as Tachpenes, was an Egyptian royal woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty, named in 1 Kings 11 as the wife of an unnamed Pharaoh around 1000 BC.
Tahurwaili
Tahurwaili (Taḫurwaili) was a poorly attested Hittite king of the mid-second millennium BC, known from a treaty with Eḫeya of Kizzuwatna and a letter by Telipinu; his place in the royal succession is disputed.
Taimhotep
Taimhotep, also written Tjaiemhotep, was an Egyptian priestess of Ptah and sistrum player at Memphis, wife of high priest Pasherenptah III, known from her funerary stela.
Taita (Luwian king)
Taita (Luwian Taitas) was the earliest known king of Palistin, an early Iron Age kingdom of the 'Amuq plain and northern Syria, dated to the 11th or 10th century BC.
Takabuti
Takabuti was a Theban noblewoman of ancient Egypt who lived around 660 BCE, the first Egyptian mummy brought to Ireland, held in Belfast's Ulster Museum since 1834.
Takelot I
Takelot I (Takeloth I) was a poorly known pharaoh of Egypt's Libyan Twenty-second Dynasty, son and successor of Osorkon I and father of Osorkon II.
Takelot II
Takelot II, also written Takeloth II, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Libyan period who ruled in the mid-9th century BC and is remembered chiefly as the father of Prince Osorkon B.
Takelot III
Takelot III, also known as Usermaatre Takelot, was a pharaoh of the Theban Twenty-Third Dynasty who ruled Upper Egypt about 767-755 BC, succeeding his father Osorkon III.
Takhat (19th dynasty)
Takhat was a royal woman of Egypt's late 19th Dynasty, generally identified as the mother of the rival king Amenmesse, with monuments at Karnak and in tomb KV10.
Takhat (20th dynasty)
Takhat was a royal lady of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, wife of Prince Montuherkhepeshef, a son of Ramesses III, and mother of Ramesses IX, buried in tomb KV 10 in the Valley of the Kings.
Takhmaspada
Takhmaspada (Old Persian Taxmaspāda) was a Mede who served Darius I as a general, defeating the rebel Tritantaechmes in 521 BC and appearing in the Behistun inscription.
Takhuit
Takhuit, printed Takhout (Takhut) in the main accounts of her, was a queen of ancient Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, wife of Pharaoh Psamtik II and mother of his successor Apries.
Takideamani
Takideamani was a king of Kush known from a Meroitic hieroglyphic offering table in Berlin, probably from the royal tomb Beg. N. 29 at Meroë, used by Griffith in 1910 to help decipher Meroitic.
Takuhlinu
Takuhlinu was a governor of the Levantine kingdom of Ugarit in the 13th century BC, known from an Akkadian letter found at Tel Aphek in Israel.
Tākultu
Tākultu, also known as Takultu, is a Mesopotamian ritual banquet performed for the well-being of Assur, Assyria, and the king, first attested in the 13th century BC.
Talakhamani
Talakhamani was a Napatan king of Kush, buried in a pyramid at Nuri in present-day Sudan after the kings Nasakhma and Malewiebamani, and the only Napatan king recorded as having died naturally at Meroë.
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian story in which the peasant Khunanup wins justice through nine petitions after being robbed.
Tale of the Herdsman
The Tale of the Herdsman is a fragmentary Middle Kingdom Egyptian story on Papyrus Berlin 3024, about a herdsman who meets a goddess in the marshes.
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is an ancient Egyptian story from about 2000 BC, the oldest surviving Egyptian tale, about a shipwreck survivor who meets a magical serpent.
Tale of Two Brothers
The Tale of Two Brothers (Papyrus D'Orbiney) is an ancient Egyptian narrative about the brothers Anubis and Bata, preserved on a single papyrus written around 1215 BC.
Tale of Woe
The Tale of Woe is an Egyptian fictional narrative written as an imaginary letter from the exiled official Wermai, preserved on a hieratic scroll in Moscow.
Talmi-Sharruma
Talmi-Sharruma (Talmi-Šarrumma) was a member of the Hittite royal family who ruled Aleppo under Hittite overlordship, appointed king by Mursili II and known from the Aleppo Treaty.
Talmi-Teshub
Talmi-Teššub, also spelled Talmi-Teshub, was a king of Carchemish on the Euphrates, the last known viceroy installed by the Hittite empire, active in the late 13th century BC.
Talta
Talta (Tālta) was a king of Ellipi, a kingdom in present-day Luristan in western Iran, who paid tribute to Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III in 737 BC and Sargon II in 716 and 714 BC.
Tamassos bilinguals
The Tamassos bilinguals are two 4th-century BC stone pedestals found at Tamassos, Cyprus, each bearing the same dedication to Resheph, equated with Apollo, in Phoenician and in Cypriot syllabic Greek.
Tammaritu (son of Teumman)
Tammaritu was an Elamite prince of the mid-7th century BC, a son of King Teumman who died with his father at the Battle of Ulai in 653 BC.
Tammaritu I
Tammaritu I was an Elamite prince, son of King Urtak, whom Assurbanipal installed as client king in Hidalu after defeating Te'umman at Til-Tuba in 653 BC.
Tammaritu II
Tammaritu II was a king of Elam from about 652 to 649 BC, installed by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, deposed by his own servant Indabibi, and briefly restored in 647 BC.
Tan-Ruhurater
Tan-Ruhurater (Tan-Ruhuratir) was a ruler of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, known from the Susa King List as the son of Idadu and father of Kindattu, who conquered Ur.