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Candaules
Candaules (Κανδαύλης), also called Myrsilus, was the last Heracleid king of Lydia, reigning at Sardis until his bodyguard Gyges murdered him and founded the Mermnad dynasty, a story told by Herodotus.
Cannibal Hymn
The Cannibal Hymn is a pair of Old Kingdom spells in Unas's pyramid at Saqqara, in which the dead king eats the gods to absorb their powers.
Canopic jar
Canopic jars are ancient Egyptian vessels storing the mummified liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines under the Four Sons of Horus; used from Hetepheres's era, later replaced by dummy jars.
Cape Gelidonya wreck
The Cape Gelidonya wreck, also called the Gelidonya shipwreck, is a Late Bronze Age merchant ship that sank around 1200 BC off Turkey carrying Cypriot copper and scrap bronze.
Capture of Babylon (710 BC)
The capture of Babylon in 710 BC was Sargon II of Assyria's removal of Marduk-apla-iddina II, the Chaldaean chief known as Merodach-Baladan, from the Babylonian throne, followed by Sargon's enthronement.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I was an Assyrian attack on Babylonia in the early 11th century BC, in which Tiglath-Pileser I twice invaded and reached Babylon.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III in 729 BC saw the Assyrian king defeat Nabu-mukin-zeri, take the hands of Bel, and reign as Pulu.
Capture of Carchemish
The Capture of Carchemish was the conquest in 717 BC of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish by the Assyrian king Sargon II, who deported its last king, Pisiri.
Capture of Damascus (732 BC)
The capture of Damascus in 732 BC, also called the Assyrian conquest of Damascus, saw Tiglath-pileser III besiege the city for 45 days, defeat King Rezin, and annex Aram-Damascus.
Capture of Dur-Yakin
The capture of Dur-Yakin, or Fall of Dûr-Yakîn, was Sargon II's siege and destruction of the Chaldean prince Marduk-apla-iddina II's stronghold in southern Babylonia, 709–707 BC.
Capture of Jerusalem by David
The capture of Jerusalem by David is the event, told in 2 Samuel 5:6-10, in which David took the Jebusite stronghold of Zion and made it his capital around 1000 BCE.
Capture of Jugurtha
The capture of Jugurtha was the seizure of Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by his ally Bocchus I of Mauretania, who handed him to Sulla in 106 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.
Capture of Larsa by Hammurabi
The capture of Larsa, also called the fall of Larsa, was Hammurabi of Babylon's 1763 BC defeat of King Rim-Sin I, after which he annexed the Larsa kingdom and united southern Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.
Capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon
The capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon, dated c. 2334 BC, was Sargon of Akkad's defeat of the king of Uruk, whom he paraded in a neck stock to the gate of Enlil.
Capture of Messana by the Mamertines
The capture of Messana by the Mamertines, also known as the Mamertine seizure of Messana, was the seizure of Messana in Sicily by Campanian mercenaries in the 280s BC.
Capture of New Carthage (209 BC)
The capture of New Carthage, or Battle of New Carthage, was the taking of Carthago Nova by Scipio in 209 BC during the Second Punic War.
Capture of Syphax
The capture of Syphax was the seizure in 203 BC of Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli, by Gaius Laelius and Masinissa after his defeat near Cirta.
Capture of Tarentum (212 BC)
The capture of Tarentum was Hannibal's seizure of the southern Italian city by treachery in 212 BC during the Second Punic War, though the Roman garrison held the citadel.
Capuan bust of Hannibal
The Capuan bust of Hannibal is an ancient marble bust found at Capua, Italy, reputedly a portrait of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, now in Naples.
Capussa
Capussa, also spelled Capusa, was a king of the Massylii in ancient Numidia who succeeded his father Oezalces and was killed within months by Mazaetullus.
Carchemish inscriptions
The Carchemish inscriptions, also called the Carchemish hieroglyphic Luwian corpus, are Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian texts from Karkemish, the largest corpus from any single Neo-Hittite site.
Carian inscriptions
The Carian inscriptions record Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language of southwest Anatolia, written from the 7th to 4th centuries BC, mostly by mercenaries in Egypt.
Carians
The Carians were the ancient people of Caria in south-west Anatolia, south of the Maeander River, speaking Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language, attested from about 1800 BC.
Carnarvon Tablet
The Carnarvon Tablet, also called Carnarvon Tablet I, is a wooden writing-board found at Thebes in 1908, inscribed with an account of King Kamose's war against the Hyksos.
Carpentras Stele
The Carpentras Stele is an Aramaic funerary inscription of unknown provenance and the earliest known Aramaic find from Egypt, dated to the Persian period after 400 BCE.
Carthage and the Mamertines
Carthage and the Mamertines refers to Carthage's entanglement with the Mamertines, Campanian mercenaries who seized Messana in Sicily around 288 BC, which became the trigger of the First Punic War.
Carthaginian coinage
Carthaginian coinage, also known as Punic coinage, is the coinage of Carthage, first struck around 410 BC to pay mercenaries in Sicily, with signature types including a horse, palm tree, and the goddess Tanit.
Carthaginian colonization of Sardinia
The Carthaginian colonization of Sardinia was Carthage's takeover in the 6th century BC of Phoenician coastal towns including Sulcis, Nora, and Tharros, with annexation confirmed by the 509 BC treaty with Rome.
Carthaginian conquest of western Sicily
The Carthaginian conquest of western Sicily was Himilco's 406–405 BC campaign that sacked Akragas, Gela, and Camarina, ending in a treaty leaving Carthage the island's west.
Carthaginian embassy to Alexander
The Carthaginian embassy to Alexander was a delegation Carthage is said to have sent to Alexander the Great in early 323 BC, recorded by Arrian and debated by historians.