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Tish-atal
Tish-atal, also written Tiš-atal, was a third-millennium BC king (endan) of the Hurrian city of Urkesh, known from foundation inscriptions recording his building of a temple.
Tiye
Tiye, also spelled Tiy, was the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of Tutankhamun, who exercised unusual political power as queen.
Tizqar
Tizqar, rendered Tizkar in some translations, is a legendary ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish, son of Samug and grandson of Barsal-nuna, known only from the Sumerian King List.
Tjahapimu
Tjahapimu was an ancient Egyptian prince and general of the Thirtieth Dynasty, left as regent of Egypt while King Teos campaigned in Asia around 360 BC.
Tjaihorpata
Tjaihorpata, also rendered Tjaiharpta or Tchahorpata, was a high official of Egypt's Thirtieth Dynasty under Nectanebo II, High Priest of Bastet, Isis, and Nephthys at Hermonthis, known from inscribed shabtis and a sarcophagus found at Saqqara.
Tjan (queen)
Tjan was an Egyptian queen consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty, the only known wife of King Sobekhotep IV, attested by a scarab in the Louvre and flourishing around the mid-18th century BC.
Tjanefer (Third Prophet of Amun)
Tjanefer was a Theban priest of the 21st Dynasty, Third and later Second Prophet of Amun, son of Menkheperre A and half-brother of Pinedjem II.
Tjanuny
Tjanuny, also known as Tjanuni, was an Egyptian royal scribe and military officer of Dynasty 18 who served Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, and Thutmose IV, and owned Theban tomb TT74.
Tjauti
Tjauti was an ancient Egyptian official, nomarch of the 5th Upper Egyptian nome and overseer of Upper Egypt, known from a rock inscription about reopening a desert road.
Tjeker
The Tjeker, also transcribed Sikil or Tjekker, were one of the Sea Peoples of the late 13th and 12th centuries BC, depicted as rulers of the port town of Dor.
Tjesraperet
Tjesraperet was a royal wet nurse of a daughter of Pharaoh Taharqa in Egypt's 25th Dynasty, known only from a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris funerary figure bearing her name and title.
Tjetji
Tjetji was a chief treasurer of the Theban 11th Dynasty who served kings Intef II and Intef III, known from his autobiographical stela in the British Museum.
Tjuneroy
Tjunery, also written Tjuneroy, was a Dynasty 19 Egyptian official under Ramesses II, known for the royal ancestor list carved in his tomb chapel at Saqqara.
Tlepolemus (regent)
Tlepolemus (Greek Tlepolemos) was a Ptolemaic general and strategos of Pelusium who served as chief minister and regent for the child king Ptolemy V from 203 or 202 BC until 202 or 201 BC.
Tobiah (Ammonite official)
Tobiah, also known as Toviyyah, was an Ammonite magnate of the mid-5th century BC who, with Sanballat and Geshem, opposed Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in 445 BC.
Togau phase
The Togau phase is a pre-Harappan ceramic phase of Balochistan, Pakistan, defined by distinctive painted pottery discovered by Beatrice de Cardi and dated to the 5th and 4th millennia BC.
Toi (king of Hamath)
Toi, also spelled Tou, was the king of Hamath in the Hebrew Bible who sent his son with gifts to David after David defeated Hadadezer of Zobah.
Tomb of Alexander the Great
The Tomb of Alexander the Great is his lost burial place in Alexandria, Egypt, where his embalmed body drew Roman emperors until the tomb's location vanished.
Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra
Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra: the shared, still-unfound burial of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII, built near a temple of Isis in Alexandria, now sought underwater there and at Taposiris Magna.
Tomb of Tutankhamun
KV62, the Valley of the Kings tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1336–1327 BC), found nearly intact by Howard Carter on 4 November 1922; small four-chamber tomb with about 5,000 artifacts, only its burial chamber decorated.
Tomb robberies of the Ramesside era
The tomb robberies of the Ramesside era were thefts from the Theban necropolis in the late 20th Dynasty of Egypt, c. 1110–1070 BC, investigated by commissions recorded in the Tomb Robbery Papyri.
Tombos Stela
The Tombos Stela is a large rock-cut victory stela of the Egyptian king Thutmose I, carved in his regnal Year 2 at Tombos in Nubia near the Third Cataract.
Topada inscription
The Topada inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian rock inscription near Ağıllı in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, commemorating Wasusarma, Great King of Tabal, and his multi-year war against the city of Parzuta.
Toparch
A toparch (Greek toparchēs) governed a toparchy, a district of several villages within a nome of Ptolemaic Egypt from the third century BC, mainly collecting revenue.
Topzawa Stele
The Topzawa Stele is a Urartian-Assyrian bilingual stele of King Rusa I of Urartu, erected near Topzawa in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 8th century BC.
Transfer of royal burials to Nuri
The transfer of royal burials to Nuri was Taharqa's decision, around 664 BC, to found a new royal necropolis in northern Sudan, ending the sequence at el-Kurru.
Transfer of the Kushite capital to Meroe
The transfer of the Kushite capital to Meroe was the shift of the Kingdom of Kush's royal residence from Napata to Meroe, conventionally placed in King Aspelta's reign around 600–580 BCE.
Transfer of the royal cemetery from Napata to Meroe
The transfer of the royal cemetery from Napata to Meroe, around 300 BC under King Arkamani I, moved Kushite royal burials from Nuri to Meroë's pyramids.
Treasure of Amanishakheto
The Treasure of Amanishakheto is a hoard of about 240 Meroitic gold jewelry pieces, found in 1834 in Queen Amanishakheto's pyramid at Meroë, Sudan, by Giuseppe Ferlini.
Treasurer (Ancient Egypt)
The treasurer of ancient Egypt, whose title imi-r ḫtmt means "overseer of sealed things", was a high court official controlling incoming palace goods, expeditions, and building projects.