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Aramatle-qo
Aramatle-qo, also known as Amtalqa, was a king of Kush in the first half of the 6th century BC, buried in pyramid Nu. 9 at Nuri.
Arame
Arame, also written Aramu, was an early king of Urartu in the Armenian highland, known only from Assyrian records of Shalmaneser III's campaigns of 858 and 856 BC.
Arame (king of Arpad)
Arame, also known as Arame of Bit-Agusi, was the second king of Bit Agusi in northern Syria, who submitted to Assyria's Shalmaneser III in 858 BCE.
Aramean incursions
The Aramean incursions were raids and settlement by Aramaean tribes against Middle Assyria and Babylonia from the late 12th to the 11th centuries BC, first recorded under Tiglath-pileser I.
Aramean migrations
The Aramean migrations were the movements of Aramaic-speaking tribes across the Fertile Crescent in the late 2nd millennium BC, producing Aramaean states including Damascus, Hamath, and Bit-Adini.
Aramean migrations into Babylonia
The Aramean migrations into Babylonia were the gradual entry and settlement of West Semitic pastoralist tribes in southern Mesopotamia from the 11th century BC, not a single invasion.
Aramean siege of Samaria
The Aramean siege of Samaria was an attack on Israel's capital by Ben-Hadad of Damascus with 32 allied kings, narrated in 1 Kings 20 under Ahab.
Aramean states
The Aramean states, also called Aramaean states, were small Iron Age kingdoms of Syria and upper Mesopotamia ruled by Aramaic-speaking dynasts and absorbed into the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Arbinas
Arbinas, also known as Erbbina, was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in south-west Anatolia who ruled c. 390–380 BC and is known chiefly from the Nereid Monument tomb.
Archaic tablets from Uruk
The archaic tablets from Uruk, also called the Uruk IV and III tablets, are about 5,000 proto-cuneiform clay tablets recording grain and livestock, dating to about 3350–3000 BC.
Architecture of Mesopotamia
Architecture of Mesopotamia: the mud-brick building tradition of the Tigris-Euphrates plain, from Ubaid temples and Uruk's first cities to ziggurats, Early Dynastic palaces, brick vaulting, and the Ishtar Gate.
Archive of Abu Salabikh
The Archive of Abu Salabikh, also called the Abu Salabikh tablets, is a group of over 400 cuneiform tablets of about 2600 BC found at Tell Abu Salabikh, Iraq.
Archive of Hor
The Archive of Hor is a private archive of the 2nd-century BC Egyptian priest Hor of Sebennytos, found at Memphis, holding 63 texts of dreams, oracles, petitions, and prayers.
Arda-Mulissu
Arda-Mulissu, also written Arda-Muliššu and known biblically as Adrammelech, was an Assyrian prince disinherited by Sennacherib in favor of Esarhaddon, and named as his father's murderer in 681 BC.
Ardys of Lydia
Ardys of Lydia, also known as Ardysus, was king of Lydia, son and successor of Gyges, who captured Priene and invaded Miletus while Cimmerians sacked Sardis.
Aretas I (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas I, also known as Harithat, was the earliest known king of the Nabataeans, the Arab people whose capital was Petra, first named in the king list around 168 BC.
Aretas II (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas II (Nabataean ḥrtt, Arabic Ḥārthah) was king of the Nabataeans around 103–96 BC, known through Josephus and coins, and linked to the siege of Gaza.
Aretas III (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas III, also known as Aretas Philhellenos or Harithath III, was king of the Nabataeans from about 87 to 62 BC, ruling from Petra and taking Damascus.
Aretas IV (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas IV, also known as Harithath IV, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BC to AD 40, ruling from Petra at the kingdom's peak.
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus was the transfer of the city to the Nabataean king Aretas IV around AD 37, known mainly from 2 Corinthians 11:32.
Arethas of Najran
Arethas of Najran, known in Arabic as Harith ibn Ka'b, was the leader of Najran's Christians, martyred in the massacre of 523 by the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas and venerated as a saint.
Arganthonios
Arganthonios, also spelled Arganthonius (Spanish Argantonio), is the semi-legendary king of the Tartessians in Herodotus, said to have reigned 80 years and lived 120, and known for aiding the Phocaeans.
Argishti I
Argishti I was king of Urartu, the kingdom centered on Lake Van, whose early-8th-century BC campaigns carried Urartian rule north of Mount Ararat and into the lands around Lake Urmia.
Argishti II
Argishti II, also known as Argišti II, was king of Urartu, the kingdom centered on Lake Van, reigning around 713–690 BC after his father Rusa I.
Arhalba
Arḫalba, also Arhalbu, was a king of Ugarit in Bronze Age Syria, deposed by the Hittite king Muršili II after a reign of about two years.
Ariaramnes
Ariaramnes (Old Persian Ariyāramna) is the great-grandfather of Darius I in the Achaemenid royal genealogy, son of Teispes and father of Arsames, possibly an early king of Persia.
Arik-den-ili
Arik-den-ili, also written Ārik-dēn-ili, was a king of Assyria in the early Middle Assyrian period, reigning about 1307–1296 BC and campaigning against nomads and Kassite Babylonia.
Arikhankharer
Arikhankharer (Arikankharer) was a 1st-century AD crown prince of the kingdom of Kush, son of the co-regents Natakamani and Amanitore, who died before he could come to power.
Arinçkus stele of Argishti I
The Arinçkus stele of Argishti I is a fragmentary Urartian stela of King Argishti I (reigned about 785/80–756 BC), found at Arinçkus near Lake Van, Turkey.
Aristobulus III
Aristobulus III, Hebrew name Jonathan, was the last Hasmonean high priest of Judea and brother of Herod the Great's wife Mariamne, appointed in 36 BCE and drowned at Jericho in 35 BCE.