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The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood
The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood, also called the Tale of Truth and Falsehood, is an Egyptian tale in which the brothers Truth and Falsehood sue each other.
The Doomed Prince
The Doomed Prince is an ancient Egyptian tale on Papyrus Harris 500, in which seven Hathors decree a prince will die by dog, crocodile, or snake.
The Immortality of Writers
The Immortality of Writers, also known as Be a Writer, is a Ramesside Egyptian text praising the scribal profession and claiming only written works survive death.
The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre
The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre is a Late Egyptian story, set around 1560 BCE, in which the Hyksos king Apepi demands Seqenenre silence his hippopotamuses.
The Starving of Saqqara
The Starving of Saqqara is a 67-centimeter limestone sculpture of two emaciated seated figures, held by Concordia University in Montreal, with undeciphered inscriptions and no recorded find context.
The Taking of Joppa
The Taking of Joppa, also known as the Capture of Joppa, is an Egyptian tale in which General Djehuty captures the rebel city of Joppa by a trick.
The Younger Lady
The Younger Lady (KV35YL) is an unnamed ancient Egyptian mummy found in 1898 in tomb KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II, and genetically identified as the mother of Tutankhamun.
Theban necropolis administration
The Theban necropolis administration ran royal tomb work in the Valley of the Kings through the Deir el-Medina workmen's community, from Horemheb to the Twentieth Dynasty.
Theban war of reunification
The Theban war of reunification was the series of campaigns by which Mentuhotep II of Thebes defeated the Herakleopolitan kingdom and reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period.
Thefarie Velianas
Thefarie Velianas was the supreme magistrate of the Etruscan city of Caere (modern Cerveteri) around 500 BC, known from the gold Pyrgi tablets found in 1964.
Theft of the golden sarcophagus of Alexander
The theft of the golden sarcophagus of Alexander was Ptolemy X's removal of Alexander the Great's gold coffin from his Alexandria tomb in about 89 BC.
Theodorus, son of Seleucus
Theodorus, son of Seleucus, was a Ptolemaic official who served as governor, admiral, and chief priest of Cyprus, flourishing between about 142 and 118 BC under Ptolemy VIII.
Theodotus of Chios
Theodotus of Chios (Theodotos of Chios) was a Greek rhetorician who taught Ptolemy XIII and in 48 BC first proposed the murder of Pompey, fleeing to Egypt after Pharsalus.
Theoi Soteres
The Theoi Soteres (Θεοὶ Σωτῆρες, Saviour Gods) were Ptolemy I and Berenike I, deified by their son Ptolemy II as the first couple of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult.
Theophilus the Indian
Theophilus the Indian, also called the Ethiopian, was a fourth-century Arian bishop and diplomat sent by Constantius II to Ḥimyar and Aksum, where his mission failed.
Theoxena of Egypt
Theoxena (Greek Θέοξενα) was a Syracusan royal woman of the early 3rd century BC, daughter of King Agathocles of Syracuse, banished by Ptolemy II to the Thebaid.
Theoxena of Syracuse
Theoxena of Syracuse (Greek Θεοξένα) was a Macedonian noblewoman, probably a daughter of Berenice I and stepdaughter of Ptolemy I, who married Agathocles, ruler of Syracuse, around 300 BC.
Thinissut sanctuary inscription
The Thinissut sanctuary inscription, also known as KAI 137, is a Punic inscription from a sanctuary of Baal Hammon and Tanit at Bir Bou Rekba, Tunisia, found in 1908.
Thinite Confederacy
The Thinite Confederacy, also called Thinnite Confederacy, is a modern reconstruction of a hypothesized late Predynastic polity centered on Thinis in Upper Egypt during Naqada III.
Third Battle of Nola
The Third Battle of Nola, fought in 214 BC during the Second Punic War, saw the Roman consul Marcellus repel Hannibal's assault on Nola, killing over 2,000 Carthaginians.
Third Dynasty of Egypt
The Third Dynasty of Egypt, also written Dynasty 3, was an early Old Kingdom royal house, c. 2687–2632 BC, whose king Djoser built the first pyramid.
Third Dynasty of Ur
Third Dynasty of Ur (Ur III, Neo-Sumerian Empire), 2193–2004 BCE Mesopotamian state founded by Ur-Namma, first king to write laws; centralized bureaucracy under deified Shulgi; ended when Elamites sacked Ur and captured Ibbi-Sin.
Third Intermediate Period of Egypt
The Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1070-664 BC) covers Dynasties 21-25, marked by divided rule among Tanite kings, Theban priests of Amun, Libyan dynasties, and Kushite pharaohs.
Third Punic War
Third Punic War (Tertium Bellum Punicum), 149–146 BCE: final Rome–Carthage war, essentially the siege of Carthage. Scipio Aemilianus stormed the city in 146 BCE; 50,000 enslaved; territory became province of Africa.
Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 13, Dynasty XIII) was a line of kings ruling from Itjtawy, c. 1782–1650 BC, marked by many short reigns.
Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt
The Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 30), also called the Sebennytian Dynasty, was the last dynasty of native Egyptian pharaohs, reigning from about 380 to 343 BC.
Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt
The Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt, or Second Persian Period, was the renewed Achaemenid Persian rule over Egypt, 343 to 332 BC, under Artaxerxes III, Arses, and Darius III.
Thoth
Thoth (Egyptian Djehuty, Ḏḥwty) is the ancient Egyptian ibis- and baboon-formed god of writing, wisdom, and the moon, scribe and record keeper of the gods, worshipped chiefly at Hermopolis and later equated with Hermes as Hermes Trismegistus.
Three shekel ostracon
The Three shekel ostracon is an inscribed pottery sherd recording a donation of three shekels of silver to the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, now widely regarded as a probable forgery.
Throne of Sitamun
The Throne of Sitamun, also known as the Throne of Princess Sitamun, is a gilded wooden ceremonial chair made for Sitamun, daughter of Amenhotep III, found in tomb KV46.