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Bryges
The Bryges, also called Briges or Brygi, were a Thracian people of the southern Balkans whose heartland lay in Macedonia around Mount Bermius, regarded as the Phrygians' European kinsmen.
Bucket and cone
The bucket and cone are a pair of objects held by winged genies in Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, best known from Ashurnasirpal II's ninth-century BC Northwest Palace at Nimrud.
Buhen stela of Senusret I
The Buhen stela of Senusret I is a sandstone stela from year 18 of his reign, set up for General Montuhotep and celebrating victories over ten Nubian locations, now in Florence.
Building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II
The building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II are Akkadian royal texts, mostly on clay cylinders and bricks, recording his temples, walls, and canals in Babylon and other Mesopotamian cities.
Building of the Buhen fortress
The building of the Buhen fortress was the 12th Dynasty construction of a large Egyptian fortress on the Nile in Lower Nubia, begun under Senusret I.
Building of the church of al-Qullays
The building of the church of al-Qullays, known as al-Qalis, was the sixth-century construction of a grand cathedral in Sanaa by Abraha, the Aksumite general who ruled Yemen.
Building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa)
The building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa) was the construction begun by Urartian king Sarduri I around 840-830 BC on a rock by Lake Van.
Building of the Esagila by Nebuchadnezzar I
The building of the Esagila by Nebuchadnezzar I was the restoration of the Esagila, Babylon's principal temple of Marduk, during his reign around 1125–1104 BC.
Building of the Etemenanki ziggurat
The building of the Etemenanki ziggurat was the reconstruction of the ziggurat of Marduk at Babylon, begun by Nabopolassar and completed by Nebuchadnezzar II around 590 BC.
Building of the Naqa temples
The building of the Naqa temples was the construction of the royal temple complex at Naqa in Sudan over roughly three centuries, from about 170 BC.
Building projects of Ur-Nanshe
The building projects of Ur-Nanshe, first king of the First Dynasty of Lagash around 2500 BCE, are recorded in about 40 inscriptions claiming 19 buildings, 10 canals, and rebuilt walls.
Building works of Hiram I at Tyre
The building works of Hiram I at Tyre were a tenth-century BC program in which King Hiram joined Tyre's two islands, enlarged its harbors, and rebuilt its temples.
Building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal
The building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal are temples built by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa (r. 690–664 BC) at two great Amun sanctuaries in Nubia.
Bularchus
Bularchus (Greek Boularchos) is a painter of Lydia known only from Pliny, who says King Candaules paid its weight in gold for his battle picture.
Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
The Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, also called the Great Lyre, is a gold and lapis bull-headed lyre from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, held by the Penn Museum.
Bull Palette
The Bull Palette is a fragmentary greywacke ceremonial cosmetic palette from late Predynastic Egypt, about 3200 to 3100 BC, decorated with a bull trampling a defeated man and now in the Louvre.
Bulla of Baruch son of Neriah
The bulla of Baruch son of Neriah is an unprovenanced clay seal impression naming Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu, the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, dated to about 586 BC.
Bulla of Hezekiah
The Bulla of Hezekiah is a clay seal impression reading "Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah", found in Jerusalem's Ophel in 2015.
Bunefer
Bunefer was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the late Fourth or early Fifth Dynasty, buried in tomb G 8408 at Giza and recorded as a daughter or wife of King Shepseskaf.
Bur-Suen of Isin
Bur-Suen of Isin, also written Bur-Sin or Būr-Sîn, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned about 1895–1874 BC, during the Isin-Larsa period.
Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh
The Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh was the royal archive and scriptorium at Akhetaten, Egypt's short-lived capital, where the Amarna letters, some 382 Akkadian cuneiform tablets, were found.
Burial of Alara at el-Kurru
The burial of Alara at el-Kurru is the tomb of Alara, first known ruler of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru in Sudan.
Burnaburiash I
Burnaburiash I, also written Burna-Buriaš I, was the tenth Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-16th century BC, known from a border treaty with Assyria.
Burnaburiash II
Burnaburiash II (Burna-Buriaš II) was a Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-14th century BCE, best known as a correspondent of Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Bushel with ibex motifs
The bushel with ibex motifs is a tall painted terracotta beaker from the Susa I necropolis in Iran, dated 4200-3500 BCE and held in the Louvre.
Bust of Amenemhat V
The Bust of Amenemhat V is a siltstone head and shoulder of the 13th Dynasty king Amenemhat V, held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and dated to 1783-1780 BC.
Bust of Ankhhaf
The Bust of Ankhhaf is a painted limestone portrait of Old Kingdom prince and vizier Ankhhaf, found in his Giza tomb in 1925 and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bust of Cleopatra
The Bust of Cleopatra is a Ptolemaic royal portrait sculpture in granitic stone, dated c. 47–30 BC and probably depicting Cleopatra VII, held in the Royal Ontario Museum.
Butehamun
Butehamun, also written Butehamon, was a Theban scribe of the royal necropolis who oversaw the reburial of the New Kingdom pharaohs' mummies in secret caches.
Buto-Maadi culture
The Buto-Maadi culture, also called the Maadi culture, was a Chalcolithic archaeological culture of Lower Egypt, named after the sites Maadi and Buto, lasting from about 3900 to 3200 BC.