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Foundation of the kingdom of Urartu
The foundation of the kingdom of Urartu was the mid-9th-century BC unification of tribes around Lake Van, first attested under King Arame and consolidated by Sarduri I at Tushpa.
Foundation of the temple complex at Musawwarat es-Sufra
Musawwarat es-Sufra is a large temple complex of the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan's Butana steppe, built mainly from the late 4th to 2nd centuries BC under King Arnekhamani.
Founding of Carthage
The founding of Carthage was the establishment of the city by colonists from Tyre, traditionally dated to 814 BC and led by the princess Elissa, or Dido.
Founding of Gadir
The founding of Gadir, also called the founding of Gades, was the Phoenician settlement of Cádiz, Spain, by colonists from Tyre, traditionally dated around 1100 BC.
Founding of Motya
The founding of Motya, also called the founding of Mozia, established a Phoenician settlement on the island of Motya in the Marsala Lagoon, western Sicily, around 775-750 BC.
Founding of Naucratis
The founding of Naucratis was the establishment of the earliest Greek trading settlement in Egypt, in the Nile Delta in the late 7th century BC under Psamtek I.
Founding of New Carthage
The Founding of New Carthage was the establishment of the Punic city Qart Hadasht, Latin Carthago Nova, by Hasdrubal the Fair at modern Cartagena, Spain, in the late 220s BC.
Founding of Samaria
The founding of Samaria, around 880 BCE, was King Omri's purchase of a hill from Shemer for two talents of silver to build Israel's capital.
Founding of the Meroitic dynasty
The founding of the Meroitic dynasty was the transfer of Kushite royal burials from Napata to Meroë around 300 BCE, marking the start of the Meroitic Period under King Arqamani-qo.
Founding of the Napatan dynasty
The founding of the Napatan dynasty was the emergence of a Kushite royal line at El-Kurru in Sudan around 800–785 BCE, beginning with king Alara, whose successors conquered Egypt.
Four-room house
The four-room house is a domestic building type of the Iron Age southern Levant, from about 1200 to 586 BC, with three long spaces and a broad back room.
Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt was a Second Intermediate Period kingdom in the Nile Delta, seated at Avaris and ruled by kings of mostly Semitic origin.
Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Fourth Dynasty of Egypt: Old Kingdom ruling house (c. 2650–2200 BC era) whose kings built the Giza pyramids; the vizier became head of administration, and the centralized state and eastern Mediterranean engagement peaked.
Frumentius
Frumentius, also called Abba Salama or Fremnatos, was a fourth-century Tyrian who became the first bishop of Aksum, credited with introducing Christianity to the Ethiopian kingdom.
Funerary chapel of Amenirdis I
The funerary chapel of Amenirdis I is a stone tomb chapel at Medinet Habu in Thebes, built c. 716–702 BC for the God's Wife of Amun Amenirdis I.
Gabbar of Sam'al
Gabbar, also rendered Gabar, was the first known king of Sam'al, an Iron Age kingdom at Zincirli Höyük in modern Turkey, reigning around the 920s BC.
Gabiniani
The Gabiniani were Roman soldiers left in Egypt by Aulus Gabinius in 55 BC as a garrison for Ptolemy XII, serving the Ptolemaic court until 47 BC.
Gabriel's Revelation
Gabriel's Revelation, also known as Hazon Gabriel, is a Hebrew apocalyptic text in ink on a limestone tablet, probably from east of the Dead Sea, dated to the late first century BCE.
Gad (prophet)
Gad the seer was a prophet at the court of King David in the Hebrew Bible, advising him in flight from Saul and announcing punishment for his census.
Gaetuli
The Gaetuli, or Gaetulians, were Berber nomadic peoples south of Numidia and Mauretania in northwest Africa, first entering Roman history in the Jugurthine War of 111-104 BC.
Gaius Petronius
Gaius Petronius was the third Roman prefect of Egypt, serving from 24 to 21 BC, and led the retaliatory war against the Kushite kingdom of Meroe, sacking Napata.
GAL DUB.SAR
GAL DUB.SAR, also written GAL DUB.SAR.MEŠ, is the Sumerographic title of the chief scribe of the Hittite kingdom, attested at Ḫattuša in the 2nd millennium BC.
GAL GESTIN
GAL GEŠTIN ('Great of the Wine') was a top-level Hittite court title, equivalent to Akkadian rabi karānim, whose holders mainly commanded army units from the early 2nd millennium BC to the kingdom's end.
GAL MESEDI
GAL MEŠEDI is the title of the chief of the royal bodyguards in the Hittite kingdom of Anatolia, usually held by a brother of the king.
Gal-Sal
Gal-Sal is a private individual of archaic Sumer named on a clay tablet of about 3100 BC as holding two slaves, a contender for the earliest known named person.
Gambulu
Gambūlu, also Gambulu, was an Aramaean tribe of the southern Babylonian marshes on the lower Tigris, attested chiefly in Neo-Assyrian royal records of the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
Gamilat
Gamilat, also Gamilath, was a queen of the Nabataeans, sister of the last king Rabbel II, named on coins struck at Petra around 70 to 106 CE.
Ganymedes
Ganymedes was a eunuch at the Ptolemaic court and tutor of Arsinoe IV who took command of the Egyptian army against Julius Caesar in 48 BC.
Gargoris
Gargoris is a legendary king of the Tartessians of southwest Iberia, known only from Justin's Epitome, which credits him with inventing the gathering of honey.
Garshana archive
The Garšana archive is a group of over 1,400 Ur III cuneiform tablets, looted and of unknown location, recording the household of general Šu-Kabta and princess Simat-Ištaran.