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Croesus hoard
The Croesus hoard, or Karun Treasure, is a set of 363 Lydian artifacts looted from tumuli in Uşak, Turkey, and repatriated from the Met in 1993.
Croesus' siege of Ephesus
Croesus' siege of Ephesus was the capture of the Ionian Greek city of Ephesus by the Lydian king Croesus, traditionally around 560 BC, his first attack on a Greek city.
Curse of Agade
The Curse of Agade, also called The Cursing of Agade, is a Sumerian poem about King Naram-Suen of Akkad and the gods' destruction of his capital, Agade.
Curse of the pharaohs
Curse of the pharaohs, also called the mummy's curse or curse of Tutankhamun: a modern legend from 1920s press coverage of the 1922 tomb discovery, not an ancient inscription; epidemiology shows no excess deaths among those exposed.
Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin
The Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin is an Akkadian literary text presenting itself as a stele by Naram-Sin of Akkad, describing his war against the Umma-mānda hordes.
Cuthites
The Cuthites, also called Cutheans (Hebrew Kutim), are the people 2 Kings 17:24 names as settlers brought from Cuthah in Babylonia to Samaria by the Assyrian king after Israel's deportation in the late eighth century BC.
Cyaxares
Cyaxares (Old Iranian Uvaxštra) was king of Media, in northwestern Iran, from about 625 to 585 BC, best known for destroying Assyria and capturing Nineveh in 612 BC.
Cyaxares I
Cyaxares I, named Uksatar in Assyrian records, was a Median ruler who paid tribute to Sargon II in 714 BC, distinct from the later Median king Cyaxares.
Cyaxares' massacre of the Scythian leaders
Cyaxares' massacre of the Scythian leaders is an episode in Herodotus where the Median king killed drunk Scythian leaders at a banquet, ending their rule.
Cyaxares' reorganization of the Median army
Cyaxares' reorganization of the Median army was a late 7th-century BC reform in which King Cyaxares, according to Herodotus, first divided troops into spearmen, archers, and cavalry.
Cypriot Bichrome ware
Cypriot Bichrome ware, also called Bichrome Wheel-made Ware, is a Late Bronze Age Cypriot pottery style, painted red and black, exported in quantity to Levantine sites like Megiddo.
Cyrus' campaign against Lydia
Cyrus' campaign against Lydia, also called the Persian conquest of Lydia, was Cyrus II of Persia's 547/546 BC defeat of King Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra and capture of Sardis.
Cyrus's entry into Babylon
Cyrus's entry into Babylon was the entry of the Persian king Cyrus II into Babylon on 29 October 539 BC, after his troops took the city without battle.
Dadanitic inscriptions
Dadanitic inscriptions, also known as Dedanite inscriptions, are a corpus of roughly 2,000 stone texts carved at al-ʿUlā in northwest Saudi Arabia between about 600 and 100 BCE.
Dadanitic script
The Dadanitic script, formerly called Dedanite, is an Ancient North Arabian script used at the oasis of Dadan in northwest Arabia between the 6th and 1st centuries BCE.
Dadasig
Dadasig is a legendary king of Kish, second ruler of the second Kish dynasty in the Sumerian King List, credited with a symbolic 81-year reign.
Dadu-Hepa
Dadu-Hepa, also written Tadu-Hepa, was a Hittite queen holding the title Tawananna as the second wife of King Tudhaliya III, mother of Henti and Tudhaliya the Younger.
Dadusha
Dadusha (Dāduša) was a king of Eshnunna in the early Old Babylonian period, son of Ipiq-Adad, known for his victory stele and the Laws of Eshnunna.
DAE 11
DAE 11, also numbered RIÉ 189, is a Gəʿəz royal inscription of King ʿEzana of Aksum from the mid-4th century celebrating his victory over the Noba and Kasu.
DAE 4
DAE 4 is a Greek royal inscription of King Ezana of Aksum recording his victory over the Beja, carved while he was still pagan and set up near Aksum.
DAE 6
DAE 6, or Deutsche Aksum-Expedition inscription 6, is the pseudo-Sabaic version of King ʿEzānā of Aksum's 4th-century victory inscription in early Geʿəz, recording his campaign against the Beja.
Dagi (vizier)
Dagi was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, serving as treasurer and vizier under Mentuhotep II and Mentuhotep III around 2010–1988 BC, and buried in tomb TT 103 at Thebes.
Dahshur (دهشور)
Dahshur (دهشور, Dashur) is an Egyptian pyramid field 35 km south of Cairo, part of the Memphis necropolis, known for Sneferu's Bent and Red Pyramids and Middle Kingdom pyramids of Amenemhat II, Senwosret III, and Amenemhat III.
Dahshur boats
The Dahshur boats are full-size wooden funerary boats buried beside pharaoh Senwosret III's pyramid complex at Dahshur, Egypt, during the Twelfth Dynasty in the 19th century BC.
Daimabad bronzes
The Daimabad bronzes are a hoard of four cast copper figures, including a bull chariot, found in 1974 at Daimabad, the southernmost known Harappan site.
Dakhamunzu
Dakhamunzu, also known as Dahamunzu, is the name Hittite records give an Egyptian queen who asked King Šuppiluliuma I for a son in marriage, probably Tutankhamun's widow Ankhesenamun.
Dalma culture
The Dalma culture is a prehistoric archaeological culture of the late 6th and 5th millennia BC in northwestern Iran and the central Zagros, known for its distinctive painted Dalma ware.
Daltā
Daltā, also rendered Dalta, was king of Ellipi, a kingdom in the Zagros foothills of western Iran, known from Assyrian records from 737 BC until his death and the succession war between his sons.
Damiq-ilishu
Damiq-ilishu, also written Damiq-ilišu, was the last king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a Mesopotamian city-state, reigning about 1814–1792 BC until Rim-Sin of Larsa conquered Isin and ended the dynasty.
Damming of the Tigris by Abi-eshuh
The damming of the Tigris by Abi-ešuh was a hydraulic military operation in which the Babylonian king tried to defeat Ilī-ma-ilu of the Sealand by drying up the southern marshes.