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Tudhaliya IV's building programme at Hattusa
Tudhaliya IV's building program at Hattusa was the last major wave of royal construction at the Hittite capital under King Tudhaliya IV, c. 1237–1209 BC.
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus was a Hittite military campaign against the island kingdom of Alashiya, generally identified with Cyprus, around 1220–1200 BC, the empire's only attested use of naval forces.
Tudhaliya of Carchemish
Tudhaliya of Carchemish was a king of Karkemish around the 10th century BC, placed after Suhi II in the city's monument list and known only from a stele fragment.
Tudhaliya the Younger
Tudhaliya the Younger was a Hittite prince, the designated heir to the throne, who died violently around the mid-14th century BC, clearing the way for Šuppiluliuma I.
Tudiya
Tudiya, also rendered Tudija, is the first of the seventeen early Assyrian kings the King List says "lived in tents", with no contemporary evidence for him.
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic
The Tukulti-Ninurta Epic is a Middle Assyrian Akkadian narrative poem from the late 13th century BC, giving a biased account of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I's victory over Babylonia.
Tukulti-Ninurta I
Tukultī-Ninurta I, son of Shalmaneser I, was king of Assyria c. 1233–1197 BC who captured Babylon, built a new capital at Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, and was murdered by his son.
Tukulti-Ninurta II
Tukultī-Ninurta II was king of Assyria from 890 to 884 BC, the son of Adad-nērārī II and father of Aššurnaṣirpal II, who consolidated his father's reconquests.
Tummal Inscription
The Tummal Inscription, also called the Tummal Chronicle, is a short Sumerian literary text tracing the repeated collapse and restoration of the Tummal, a sanctuary of Ninlil at Nippur.
Tupkish
Tupkish (Tupkiš) was a Hurrian king of Urkesh, a city at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, whose palace is dated to about 2250 BC in the Akkadian period.
Tupkish dynasty of Urkesh
The Tupkish dynasty was the Hurrian ruling house of the ancient city of Urkesh at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, founded by King Tupkish around 2250 BC.
Tura-Dagan
Tura-Dagan (Tûr-Dagan) was a šakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the late third millennium BC, known chiefly from a seal impression.
Turam-ili
Turam-ili was a merchant of the Ur III state in northern Babylonia who held the title "overseer of merchants" and is known from fifty-nine tablets now at Yale.
Turdetani
The Turdetani were an Iron Age people of the lower Guadalquivir valley in southern Spain, whom Strabo called the most intelligent Iberians and heirs of the Tartessians.
Turin Erotic Papyrus
The Turin Erotic Papyrus (Papyrus Turin 55001) is a fragmentary Ramesside Egyptian papyrus in the Museo Egizio, Turin, showing satirical animal scenes and twelve erotic scenes with captions.
Turin King List
The Turin King List, also called the Turin Canon, is a hieratic Egyptian papyrus listing rulers and their reign lengths, now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Turin Papyrus Map
The Turin Papyrus Map, also called the Turin Gold Mining Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian map of the Wadi Hammamat gold-mining district, drawn around 1150 BC.
Turin Strike Papyrus
The Turin Strike Papyrus records the work stoppages of the tomb builders of Deir el-Medina over unpaid rations in year 29 of Ramesses III, around 1158 BCE.
Turtanu
The turtanu (Akkadian tartānu), a Hurrian loanword meaning deputy, was the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army; by the 7th century BC the office was split between left and right commands.
Turukkaeans
The Turukkaeans (Turukku, also spelled Turukkeans) were a Hurrian-speaking, clan-based nomadic people of the Zagros mountains, known chiefly from the Old Babylonian archives of Mari and Shemshara.
Tushratta
Tushratta (Tušratta) was king of Mitanni from about 1360 to 1335 BCE, who corresponded with Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, resisted the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, and died by assassination.
Tushratta–Amenhotep III marriage negotiations
The Tushratta–Amenhotep III marriage negotiations, recorded in 13 Amarna letters, saw Mitanni's king Tushratta send his daughter Tadukhipa to marry Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the mid-14th century BC.
Tutammu
Tutammu, also spelled Tutammû or Tutamu, was the last king of Patina, a Syro-Anatolian kingdom of the Amuq plain, deposed by Tiglath-pileser III in 738 BCE when Assyria annexed his realm.
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (Tutankhaten), 18th Dynasty pharaoh 1336–1327 BCE, restored Egypt's old religion after Akhenaten; his nearly intact tomb KV62, found by Howard Carter in November 1922, made him Egypt's most famous king.
Tutankhamun's mummy
Tutankhamun's mummy, the body of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh found in tomb KV62 in 1922, still kept in the Valley of the Kings; examined by X-rays, the 2005 CT scan, and contested 2010 DNA studies of his family and pathologies.
Tutankhamun's trumpets
Tutankhamun's trumpets are a bronze and a silver trumpet from the 18th Dynasty reign of Tutankhamun, found in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.
Tutkheperre Shoshenq
Tutkheperre Shoshenq, officially Shoshenq IIb, was a poorly attested pharaoh of the early Twenty-Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from monuments at Bubastis and finds at Abydos.
Tutu (Egyptian chamberlain)
Tutu (Ṭutu) was an Egyptian chamberlain at the court of Akhenaten in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and his tomb at Amarna.
Tuwana
Tuwana, known in Assyrian records as Tuhana, was an Iron Age kingdom in southern Cappadocia, Anatolia, part of the region the Assyrians called Tabal, with its capital identified with Tyana at Kemerhisar.
Tuwati
Tuwati, also rendered Tuwatis or Tuatti, was a great king of Tabal in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC, known as the father of King Wasusarma.