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Tuya
Tuya, also called Mut-Tuya, was the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Seti I and mother of Ramesses II, buried in the Valley of the Queens.
Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt
Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 12): Middle Kingdom dynasty founded by Amenemhat I, ruling c. 1990-1809 BC from Itjtawy, with Senusret III, Amenemhat III's Faiyum works, and queen Sobekneferu as its last ruler.
Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as Dynasty 20, was the last dynasty of the New Kingdom, ruling from about 1186 to 1069 BCE.
Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty 28, was a native Egyptian dynasty of the single pharaoh Amyrtaeus, who reigned about 404 to 398 BC.
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, also called the Kushite or Nubian Dynasty: kings from Napata in Kush who ruled Egypt (c. 747–656 BC) as pharaohs, from Piye's conquest through Taharqo until Assyrian invasions ended their rule.
Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, also called the Tanite dynasty, ruled from Tanis c. 1070–945 BC, the first dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period, ending with Sheshonq I's accession.
Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as the 24th Dynasty, was a short-lived line of kings who ruled from Sais in the Nile Delta in the late eighth century BC.
Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt, also called the Mendesian dynasty, was a native Egyptian royal house ruling from Mendes from about 398 to 380 BC.
Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt, also called the Bubastite or Libyan Dynasty, was a Libyan-origin dynasty founded by Shoshenq I about 945 BC that ruled Egypt until roughly 730 BC.
Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt, or First Persian Period, was Achaemenid Persian rule over Egypt, begun by Cambyses II's conquest in 525 BCE and ended by secession around 404 BCE.
Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, or Saite dynasty, was a native Egyptian dynasty ruling from Sais from 664 to 525 BC, ending with the Persian conquest under Cambyses.
Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt, also Dynasty 23, was a collateral royal line of the Third Intermediate Period, founded by Pedubast I at Thebes and overlapping Dynasty 22 for about 90 years.
Two Lands of Kush
The Two Lands of Kush divided Egypt's New Kingdom Nubian province into Wawat in Lower Nubia and Kush in Upper Nubia, under the viceroy of Kush.
Two-dog Palette
The Two-dog Palette, also called the Ashmolean Palette, is a late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette excavated at Hierakonpolis and held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Twosret
Twosret, also spelled Tausret or Tawosret, was a female pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the last ruler of the 19th Dynasty, who reigned about 1191–1185 BC.
Tyrian king list
The Tyrian king list, also called the list of kings of Tyre, records Tyre's kings from Hiram I to Hiram III, surviving only through Josephus.
Tyrian shekel
The Tyrian shekel, or Tyre shekel, is a silver coin struck by Tyre from 126 BC to AD 66, the only currency the Jerusalem Temple accepted.
Tyti
Tyti was a royal wife of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, identified as a wife of Ramesses III and buried in tomb QV52 in the Valley of the Queens.
Ualli
Ualli was a king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, who took the throne with Assyrian support after his father Ahsheri was assassinated.
Uballissu-Marduk
Uballissu-Marduk was a Babylonian accountant and administrator who served the Kassite king Kurigalzu in the fourteenth century BC, known from seal inscriptions and later land grants.
Ubara-Tutu
Ubara-Tutu, also written Ubartutu, is the legendary last antediluvian king of Shuruppak in the Sumerian King List, said to have ruled 18,600 years and fathered the flood hero Ziusudra.
Ubartum
Ubartum was a female physician of the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, the best-known woman practicing medicine at the end of the third millennium BC.
Udjahorresnet
Udjahorresnet, also written Wedjahor-Resne, was an Egyptian high official and chief physician from Sais who served the pharaohs Amasis and Psammetichus III, then the Persian kings Cambyses II and Darius I.
Udjebten
Udjebten, also written Wedjebten, was a queen consort of Pepi II of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, buried in a pyramid at South Saqqara whose burial chamber bore Pyramid Texts.
Udul-kalama
Udul-kalama is a legendary ruler of Uruk known only from the Sumerian King List, which names him as Ur-Nungal's son and credits him with a 15-year reign.
Ugarit earthquake
The Ugarit earthquake refers to earthquakes proposed by excavator Claude Schaeffer for Bronze Age Ugarit, Syria, around 1365 BC and 1250 BC, inferred from archaeology.
Ugaritic alphabet
The Ugaritic alphabet, also called Ugaritic cuneiform, is a cuneiform abjad of 30 signs used at the Syrian city of Ugarit from the 14th century BC until about 1185 BC.
Ugaritic language
Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language spoken at Ugarit on the north Syrian coast, written in an alphabetic cuneiform script of 30 signs, attested mainly in the 13th century BCE.
Ugaritic texts
The Ugaritic texts, also called the Ras Shamra tablets, are clay tablets excavated since 1929 at Ras Shamra, the site of ancient Ugarit on the north Syrian coast.
Ugbaru
Ugbaru, also known as Gubaru, was governor of Gutium under Cyrus II who took Babylon without battle in 539 BC and governed it until his death.